Italian officers and men were reported today to have been tried at Tirana, capital of Albania, on the charge of having facilitated the escape of several hundred Yugoslav Jews confined in a concentration camp at Mancha, near Sarajevo.
At the same time it was reported here that many Jews in the cities of Turin, Milan and Genoa, in Italy, have been deported to concentration camps located in the Italian part of the Tyrol. Their household effects were confiscated by the local Fascist councils allegedly for distribution among Italians whose property was destroyed during British air raids.
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