Two camps for displaced Jews – that at Zeilsheim near Frankfurt and the Lampertheim camp near Mannheim – settled down today to normal and peaceful existence after several ugly scenes of violence last week, in which 15 persons were reported injured and a Jewish police chief slapped by an American lieutenant.
UNRRA authorities at the Zeilsheim camp today emphasized that the incidents there were not anti-Semitic in fact and in character. The displaced Jews resent the fact that the American military authorities are using armed German police in the camps. However, the military officials claim that the German police are needed to suppress black market operations.
Representatives of the UNRRA, anxious to prevent further incidents, are now attempting to have German policeman removed, at least from the vicinity of the camps where the police constitute a mockery to the displaced Jews, who hate the sight of Germans, especially armed ones. The Lampertheim camp has now been declared out of bounds for German police. At the same time, “orientation classes” have been opened for the newly-arrived American troops stationed at the camps for displaced Jews, in order to educate the soldiers as to the rights of the displaced persons.
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