Nazis Tereaten to Kill All Captive Jews in Reprisal for Germans Sent to Russia

The Nazi Government, through its news agency DNB, today issued a warning that all Jews now in German hands, as well as Jewish war prisoners who may be captured, will be killed in reprisal for the reported plan to send Germans to Russia as laborers to rebuild the areas devastated by the German Army.

“If Roosevelt now admits that he and his accomplice Churchill undertook at the yalta conference to surrender German war prisoners to the Soviet Union, then it is nothing but part of a devilish Jewish plan,” the Nazi news agency said. Emphasizing that the Hitler government will retaliate, DNB added, “Above all, we shall make every Jew who is, or who falls into our hands pay for all others. When the war comes to an end, there will be no more Jews in Europe.”

A delegation of the Council to Rescue Polish Jews has arrived in Geneva from London to negotiate with Swiss authorities and international organizations on means of rescuing the several hundred thousand Jews from Poland who are still held by the Germans. The delegation consists of Emanuel Szerer, Jewish deputy in the National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile, Rabbi Babad and Dr. M. Lachs.

It is learned that the delegation conferred with Prof. Karl Burckhardt, head of the International Red Cross, before he left for Germany where he is now reported to be conferring with Hitler and Himmler on the question of war prisoners and Jews held in concentration and labor camps. The delegation also saw Eduard von Steiger, President of the Swiss Confederation, who said that the Swiss authorities were doing everything possible to assist the surviving Polish Jews, but that there are a great many difficulties at present.