The Nazi authorities of Memel have formally confiscated all Jewish property, valued at an estimated $17,000,000, it was learned her today. Germans were at the same time forbidden to pay debts to Jews, of whom several hundred still remain in the territory recently taken by Germany from Lithuania.
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