Ignoring assurances given by the German Red Cross that food sent by American Relief organizations into Nazi-held Poland would be duly distributed among the starving population, the Nazi authorities in Warsaw have started confiscation of commodities assigned to the local relief committee, it was reported today by the Polish Government-in-exile.
The report states that the German authorities invaded the central warehouse of the relief committee in Warsaw and confiscated large quantities of fats, meat and other food products. “It seems quite probable that the supplies confiscated by the Germans were bought in neutral European countries for German-held Poland by the Commission for Polish Relief in the United States, the Polish report adds.
According to the arrangement existing between the International Red Cross and the central Nazi authorities in occupied Poland, foodstuff and medicaments sent into the occupied territory by American relief organizations, including the Distribution Committee, are to be delivered to a mixed Polish-Jewish-German relief committee in Cracow, the seat of the Nazi governor, and from there shipped to provincial towns in accordance with the local needs of the population. Prof. Marek Biberstein of Cracow, is the Jewish representative on this committee.
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