A total of 68,469 yellow badges for Jews have been issued in the city of Paris, according to official German figures published in the Paris press today. The figures reveal that in all of occupied France there are today 78,511 Jews, not including those held in concentration camps.
The data disproves the Nazi allegations that “Paris was flooded with 500,000 Jews.” It establishes that there were 110,000 Jewish residents in the Fran capital in 1940 and that one-third of them are now either in camps or “have simply disappeared from their homes.”
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