Home Secretary Sir John Anderson admitted in the House of Commons yesterday that Nazi sailors in British internment camps were victimizing interned Jewish refugees. Charges of Jew-baiting by Nazi internees had been published by Hannen Swaffer in his Daily Herald column. Sir John promised that the Nazis would be transferred to separate internment camps.
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