The “Voice of Israel” transmitter, which is operated by the Haganah, said today that Gotthilf Wagner, former mayor of the Germany colony of Sarona and leading Palestine Nazi, was killed by members of the Jewish Resistance Movement. Wagner was shot dead by an unidentified youth on Friday on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
The broadcast declared that the Palestine Jewish community “will not tolerate Germans living here in a safe haven, while Jews are being deported without trial. It demanded that all Germans be deported from Palestine, that their property be confiscated and that demobilized Jewish servicemen be settled on their land.
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