A large number of Jews are among the 220 merchants arrested in Munich for alleged profiteering, it was learned today. Although certain non-Jewish merchants possibly took advantage of the opportunity created by the closing of the shops of their Jewish competitors, to raise prices, this suspicion, however, is believed inapplicable to the Jews who, fighting desperately to retain the vestiges of their rapidly disappearing business, have reduced prices generally. This is believed to have aroused the ire of their competitors among the Nazis, who denounced them to the authorities.
The Nazi concentration camp at Dachau to which all the arrested merchants, except the women, were taken, is the worst of all camps for the imprisoned Jews. This is because they are attacked and beaten up by their Communist fellow-prisoners for being “bourgeoisie”, and also by their Nazi captors for being Jews.
A number of Jews at this camp have been shot down by their guards under the excuse that they had attempted to escape. In addition to Rudolf Benario Goldman, whose shooting was reported, the latest “escape” victim is Leonard Hausmann.
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