A concentrated campaign against the Jews in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece was started simultaneously by the Berlin and Rome radio stations over the weekend. Both stations implied that the Jews would be eliminated from economic life in all the Balkan countries which the Axis forces will occupy.
The Rome radio station estimated that the number of the Jews in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece “amounts about a half-million.” It added that “they had great influence on economic life in the Balkan countries.”
Dealing with the reports of arrival of strong British troops detachments in Iraq, the official German news agency, Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, displays nervousness over the fact that the British succeeded in checking the Nazi intrigues in Iraq by a sudden landing of military forces in Basra. “This is a new and typical terror act of Churchill,” the Nazi agency comments.
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