How Nazi authorities forced interned Soviet journalists to undergo a special physical examination in order to ascertain which of them were Jewish, was related here today by one of the internees who arrived here after being released from Germany in exchange for an interned Nazi correspondent in Soviet Russia.
The Soviet newspaperman stated that on the day when the German army started its march against Russia all Soviet journalists were arrested in Berlin. Upon their reaching the internment camp, they were informed that those of them who were Jews would be subjected to “special” treatment. They were then stripped naked by their jailers and those suspected of being Jewish were separated from their colleagues in a special barracks where they were maltreated and beaten by the Nazi guards.
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