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Nazis Execute German Army Chaplains in Greece for Aiding Jews

June 3, 1942
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Two German army chaplains, who fled to Smyrna from Greece in an Italian army plane, which they had appropriated, reported that they were deserting because six of their colleagues had been executed at Salonika for secretly feeding starving Greeks and Jews, according to reports reaching here today from Smyrna.

The two chaplains, who were piloted by a German soldier, also revealed that many other pastors serving with the Nazi army had been sent back to Germany or deported to elsewhere in German-occupied Europe when they were discovered to have helped Jewish and Greek women and children escape to Syria.

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