Nazi planes today dropped anti-Jewish leaflets over Moscow asserting that “every seventh person in Moscow is a Jew” and telling the population that “the German army aims to liberate the Russian people from Jewish slavery.”
With the evacuation of all foreign diplomatic missions from Moscow to Kazan, the Soviet capital is now being fortified day and night by the civil population, with every able-bodied Jew volunteering for participation in the defense of the city.
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