Baldur von Schirach, Nazi governor of Vienna, addressing a meeting there announced that “the evacuation of Jews is continuing at such a rate that it can be expected that by the end of this year Vienna will be entirely free of Jews,” the Svenska Dagbladet reported today.
Swedish newspapers report that the Nazi authorities have established a huge concentration camp in Poland for all Jews deported from Belgium, Holland, France, Czechoslovakia and Norway.
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