Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Sir Robert Waley Cohen, Neville laski and a number of other prominent Jewish leaders in England were marked for “extermination” by the Gestapo in a list prepared in Berlin in 1940 when the Germans were beasting that they were about to invade Britain.
The list, unearthed yesterday in Berlin, includes 2,300 names of the most important people in England, known for their opposition to the Nazis, headed by former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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