An additional list of Norwegian Jews whose property has been confiscated appears today in the Frit Volk, official organ of Vidkun Quisling, bringing to almost 900 the number of Jews who have been rendered penniless by the pro-Nazi puppet government of Norway, Today’s list includes the names of 310 Jews, The first list, published last week, gave the names of 585 Jews.
Invalids over eighty years of age, including blind and crippled persons, are among the Norwegian Jews arrested for deportation, it is reported today in the Social Demokraten, This paper discloses that the anti-Semitic campaign in Norway is so violent that even Minister Hagelin, chief of the Department for Internal Affairs, had difficulty proving that he had a sufficient number of “Aryans” among his ancestors to justify his remaining in Oslo and not sharing the fate of the Jews and half-Jews who are isolated in two camps awaiting deportation to the Arctic regions.
At the same time the Swedish newspaper, Stockholm Aftontidningen, publishes the names of the Gestapo leaders chiefly responsible for the persecution of the Norwegian Jews. In charge of the anti-Jewish campaign. the Aftontidningen writes. is Sturmbann-Fuehrer Wagener and his assistant Bocsm. They are aided by Inspectors Fisher and Grossman. The actual arrests and confiscations, although ordered by the Gestapo, are carried out by the Quisling state police under the leadership of Chief Constable Harald Egeland, the Aftontidningen adds.
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