(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A startling revelation of a plan of the former German war lords to solve “the Jewish question” in the territories of the former Russian Empire, occupied by the German army during the war was made by Dr. Paul Nathan, well known German Jewish leader, in an address he delivered here yesterday.
Dr. Nathan, who just returned from a trip to Russia, in commenting on the situation of Russian Jewry in the last decade, declared that the general of the German army in the occupied territories planned, at one time, to alleviate the then existing difficulty in obtaining sufficient food for the army and the population, by packing the Jewish population in the occupied territories into huge German steamers and directing them to America, although it was certain that if the boats were launched, they would be torpedoed by the British submarines. It was due to the plea of the German Jewish leaders that this terrible plan was abandoned, Dr. Nathan declared.
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