The Nazi Transocean news agency today distributed a report to the Swedish press taking issue with the protest of Pope Pius against the German deportations of Jews from Italy.
“The removal of the Jews from Rome became a necessity in order to provide room for refugees from Italian cities who lost their homes due to British-American air assaults,” the German news agency “explained.”
Seemingly unimpressed by the German “explanation,” Swedish newspapers today continue to publish reports from their correspondents in Rome describing the sympathy which the Italian population displays towards the ejected Jews. “The severe anti-Jewish measures which are now being imposed by the German authorities are talk of the Italian people in many homes.” the correspondent of the Stockholm Tidningen writes.
Swedish papers also reported today that the German-controlled radio station in Esthonia has suddenly started an intensified anti-Jewish propaganda campaign despite the fact that all the Jews there have long since been “liquidated” by the Nazis.
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