U.S. Commander in Germany Says He Does Not Know What Will Happen to Jews in Dp Camps

Confirming that Jewish displaced persons are not affected by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes’ announcement that most DP camps will be closed by August, Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, U.S. Commanding General in the European Theatre, told the press today that he did not know what would happen to them.

Asked what would be done with the Jewish DP’s Gen. McNarney said: “I wish you could tell me.” He added that the chances are that very few will remain in Germany because “not even one in a 1,000 wishes to stay in Germany.”

At a ceremony here yesterday, plaques were unveiled at the sites of the synagogues here, destroyed in Nov., 1938, in the pogroms following the assassination of Nazi attache Ernst vom Rath in Paris. The plaques were put up by the Frankfurt municipality at the suggestion of the military government. Speaking at the unveiling ceremonies, Rabbi Leopold Neuhaus voiced the gratitude of the Jewish community.

In a special broadcast marking the ceremonies, a commentator on the Frankfurt radio reviewed the anti-Jewish crimes of the Nazis and said that “when we hear of the harsh persecutions of Jews in some parts of Eastern Europe today, when in the West, too, victims who have survived the death mills of the Nazis are not exactly received with open arms, this shows to what moral degradation Nazism gave rise also outside of Germany.”

The Munich radio today announced that the Jewish Central Committee there has taken over three agricultural schools and model farms in Bavaria. One-hundred persons can be trained at one time on these farms for work in Palestine.