Materials taken from destroyed Jewish cemeteries in the Poznam area of Nazi-occupied Poland are going into the construction of German roads and the manufacture of bullets for the German army, it was disclosed today in the Nazi newspaper Ostdeutscher Beobachter.
The newspaper reported that all Jewish cemeteries in the area, which has been cleared of Jews and Poles to make room for German repatriates from the Baltic countries, are being systematically destroyed. Gravestones are being broken up for use in road construction, while metal ornaments and gates are being melted down to be made into bullets.
According to the paper, the oldest Jewish cemetery in Poznan was the first to be destroyed. Jews lived in Pozzolan since the thirteenth century.
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