The ghettos “liquidated” by the Nazis in Poland are now being used by the German administration there to house large numbers of German civilians who are being evacuated from Berlin and other cities in the Reich where intensified Allied air raids are feared, it was reported here today from Stockholm.
Hundreds of trains continue to bring the German refugees to Warsaw and other Polish cities where they are placed in dwellings left by Jews who were deported from the ghettos. The Nazi authorities are also ejecting Poles from their homes to make room for the arriving Germans.
Polish official circles here today reported that the Nazi authorities in Poland have announced that persons guilty of supplying information on the situation of the Jews in the country will be sent to concentration camps. At the same time German postal clerks were ordered to stamp undelivered letters with the inscription “not known” instead of “the addressee is dead” in cases when these letters come from Jews in neutral countries.
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