The newspaper Le Journal today proposed the hanging of “Jewish profiteers.” The demand climaxed an anti-Jewish campaign conducted by some papers following the arrest of three Jews for profiteering, despite the fact that they were among several scores of non-Jews arrested on the same charge.
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