The 15,000 children born of German mothers, whose fathers were members of the Allied army of occupation, should be killed in order to maintain the purity of the race, since in many cases the fathers were negroes and orientals, declares the “Ostdeutscher Beobachter,” the Koenigsberg organ of the Hitlerites. The paper also asks that the mothers be treated to prevent their bearing any more children. Commenting on this demand, the Central Society of German Citizens of Jewish Faith calls it “an immense race and ritual murder.”
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