Concentration of all Jews in the Reich in Berlin for deportation to Nazi-held astern territory, and the daily shipment to Poland of freight trains crowded with deported German Jews are reported in German newspapers reaching here today from Berlin. The Nazi press continues to boast that “Germany will become completely ‘Judenrein’ this winter.” It states that the deported Jews are carried in old cars and are not permitted to contact persons at the stations they pass en route to their destinations.
While Jews from Germany are being deported to the east, the Nazi paper Krakauer Zeitung, reaching here today from occupied Poland, reports that 150,000 Polish Jews have already been sent from their ghettos to Germany to do forced labor in the Reich.
The Schwarze Korps, organ of the Gestapo, carries an article “advising” the German authorities in occupied France, Norway, Belgium and Holland to rigidly suppress the movement started by non-Jews who wear the yellow Mogen David as a demonstration of sympathy with the persecuted Jews. This movement, the Gestapo paper writes, is being led by pro-Jewish and anti-German priests and should be dealt with severely.
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