Expulsion of Jews from Austria and the Protectorate has ceased, according to reports from Vienna. The reasons given are the lack of rolling stock, all of which is being used for military purposes, and the acute labor shortage, which makes it necessary for the Nazis to put to work in factories, on railroads and in building of fortifications the Jews who ordinarily would be sent to the Lublin Jewish “reservation.”
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