Germens in Poland are making the Jews scapegoats for the widespread epidemics which have resulted from undernourishment, crowded housing and insufficient fuel and clothing, Polish circles here reported today.
Conditions in the crowded ghettos are naturally worst, but the Germans are using the prevalence of typhus for the wildest anti-Samitic propaganda, Posters have been plastered everywhere depicting the head of a Jew next to a magnified louse and the caption: “Jews Equel Lice Equal Typhus.”
At least a half million copies of a pamphlet covered with a similar drawing have been distributed, purporting to give medical advice to the people to protect themselves against typhus. In addition, indicating measures necessary to avoid spread of disease, the pamphlet stresses the necessity of avoiding contact with Jews, who, it says, “are always dirty and covered with lice.”
Short films showing the interiors of overcrowded ghetto dwellings are exhibited in every cinema.
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