German Jews will be compelled to move out of the larger cities, it was indicated by governmental authorities in announcing the establishment of a special commission by the Reich Ministry of the Interior for the depopulation of the German cities.
The new commission will work on the principle of “Aryan blood and Aryan soil” and those who do not come within these categories will have to leave the great cities and move to specified neighborhoods and other places.
The official pretext for the creation of the depopulation commission is that the German cities are too congested.
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