French newspapers reported today that all Jews, Poles and political prisoners in the German concentration camps of Dachau, Oranienburg and Papenburg were being forced to produce poison gas. The camps have been transformed into “prohibited cities,” the reports said.
At the same time, reports said, Jews in Nazi-occupied Galicia were undergoing tortures. In the township of Sanok, the entire Jewish population was forced out by the Nazis to do street labor in their underwear in cold weather, it was reported, later being forced to bathe in the frigid water of the local river.
Large numbers of Jews were forced to do road-building work under the severest treatment on the road between Radomsko and Miechov, it was reported.
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