Many young Jews in Hungary, fearing for their lives under German occupation and aware of Hitler’s determination to annihilate them, are making desperate efforts to reach either Marshal Tito’s partisans forces on the Yugoslav-Hungarian frontier, or Polish and Russian guerilla groups now operating on Polish territory behind the German lines between the city of Lwow and the Carpatho-Ukrainian part of Hungary, it was reported here today.
The Swiss press predicts today that German military forces in Hungary will have difficulty in combatting attacks by guerilla units which, it said, will no doubt be formed in the Hungarian section of the Carpathian mountains which the Russian Army is approaching. Commentators in Swiss newspapers agree that these guerilla units will be formed of Jews, Poles and Hungarian Social Democrats, assisted by Russian instructors and ammunition which will be dropped by parachutes from Russian planes.
The Carpathian mountains and the woods in that section offer an ideal hide-out for guerillas, especially with the approach of Spring, it is pointed out by some of the Swiss writers who compare the hilly section of the Hungarian-Polish frontier with some of the mountain regions in Switzerland. The general feeling here is that Jews in Hungary now have nothing to lose and much to gain by joining guerilla units either on the Russian front near the Hungarian frontier, or on the side of the Yugoslav partisans who have saved many Jews from extermination by the Nazis in occupied Yugoslavia.
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