Nazi authorities are bringing pressure upon the French Government in Vichy to organise a special police force to deal with Jews in unoccupied France, it was learned here today.
In emphasising that “special circumstances make it imperative that a stricter control be imposed over the Jews in unoccupied France,” German diplomats in Vichy and in Paris have, according to information received here, indicated that Hitler himself is personally interested in seeing the Jewish situation “coordinated” in the occupied and in the unoccupied parts of France.
From all indication it becomes more and more obvious that Nazi Germany, short of labor, is determined to deport all Jews from the occupied countries of Western Europe to be used for fortification and building work in occupied Russia. To make Western Europe completely “judenrein,” the Nazis are determined to include the Jews of unoccupied France also.
Reports received here today from Harseilles, the seat of the Union of Jews in unoccupied France which is the central Jewish organization in the country, disclose that the special non-Jewish official assigned by the Vichy Commissariat for Jewish Affairs to control the activities of the Union has informed the Jewish leaders in Marseilles that the philanthropic activities conducted by the Union among the Jews in France will be placed under more stringent regulation. No expenditure can now be made by the Union without the approval of the non-Jewish official who has his offices in the headquarters of the Union.
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