The Vatican has intervened with the German military authorities in Rome in an attempt to persuade the Nazis to stop rounding up all Jews, native and refugee, in the Italian capital and in the other cities of German-held Italy, according to a reliable report received here.
The report also disclosed that among the targets of the Nazi search are 500 Jews – mostly Polish nationals – who fled from the formerly Italian-occupied section of France to Rome after Italy’s capitulation, apparently under the impression that they could thus avoid seizure by the Germans.
The Fascist newspaper, Il Fascio, another report says, has published a demand that two Milan publishers, Mondadoaori and Rizzoli be arrested for “pro-Semitism.”
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