Nazi newspapers reaching Switzerland today report that the Nazi administration in Poland have issued an order prohibiting Jews and Poles from acquiring white bread and wheat flour.
“White bread is a luxury, and we are not going to provide the Jews and the Poles with luxuries,” the Deutsche Rundschau declares in attempt to justify the order.
The same issues of the Nazi newspapers report the showing in Berlin of an anti-Semitic film containing scenes taken in the ghettos in Warsaw, Lodz and other cities. Jews in these ghettos were forced to pose for the Nazi camera men, it is indicated by the comments in the newspapers that “the pictures were taken not in studios, but in the actual ghettos, representing the daily life of the ghetto Jews.”
The anti-Semitic scenes showing the Jews in the ghetto streets, in crowded dwellings and in synagogues, are accompanied by captions giving data as to the number of Jews in various Polish towns prior to the Nazi occupation which are now “Judenrein.” The film concludes with a march of brownshirt battalions over the streets of the ghetto, aimed at impressing the audience with the difference between the depressed Jews and the “victorious” Germans.
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