The selling of Jews as slaves by the local German administrators in Poland has become an every day occurrence, it can be noted from German newspapers reaching here today.
Capitalizing on the acute shortage of qualified workers, Nazi commissars in various Polish towns are openly advertising in German newspapers that they have “Jews for sale” to work in private and military industrial enterprises. Typical of such advertisements is one published in the Litzmannstadter Zeitung by the Nazi commissar of Varta, a town near Lodz. The advertisement reads. “I have at my disposal 250 qualified Jewish tailors, furriers and cap-makers. I am ready to take orders for the Army or for private enterprises.”
Other Nazi commissars announce their readiness to send the qualified Jewish laborers to any place in Nazi-controlled territory where they may be needed. The announcements are inserted in the German papers by the Nazi officials with a view of securing as large a bribe as possible from German manufacturers working on defense contracts who compete for desperately needed factory workers.
“FIRST CLASS GHETTO” ESTABLISHED FOR JEWS WORKING IN NAZI FACTORIES
A special “first class” ghetto for Jews who are working in Nazi-controlled factories has been established in Lublin, it is reported in the Krakauer Zeitung reaching here today.
Jews working on Nazi-supervised farms are similarly permitted to reside in this special ghetto. All residents are permitted to leave the ghetto for work in their respective places and must return after work. They are forbidden to maintain any contact with the Jews in Lublin who are crowded in the “inferior ghetto,” the Nazi paper states.
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