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Nazis Gather in Slave Labor; Many SuicitlesLONDON, Sept 6.—CLP)—Flglit- jjng French headquarters said to-: day that a German round-up of; J civs in French occupied territoiw j 3n mid-July had caused 300 sut- j cities. in Paris alone and had re- ; suited in some nf the most terrible scenes of the war,.“Jewish women wexfe seen to, throw their babies out of sixth | floor windows and jump after them, screaming wildly.. . - Jews were dragged from their homes. Others were ejected from hospitals , , . among patients thrown out of the ■ Rothschild Hospital was a euncer j rnae, operated on 12 hours previous! y, also a woman beside whoso bed police stood while she gave, birth to a child,” the fighting. French headquarters said in an. official statement.Pcuple Horrified DeLailed reports, including ey^r wtacsu statements,received by secret1 channels were cited as authority Jo r the statement.It was noted that French pea-5*1 e were horrified and that , they ebed Jews and hindered police. ' :- (United Press reports from the :: French frontier had reported cat- -• lier .this week .that when Vichy, nt the demlum of the Germans, ,- Btarted a round-up of Jews in mi- i T. occupied territory su they could -\ he deported to eastern Europe, i w; French people resisted the police.Started in July •' ' Fighting French headquurlerB ; :• said the occupied zone round-up i . was* started in earnest July 12, two .• da vs before Bastille Day, the great . '• Republican holiday, and that by ] ' Bastille Day 28,000 men, women lt;• mid children hnd been herded intov the Princes Park and the Velodrome I D’Hlvcr sports center. ]The statement, angrily phrnscil, i I V.railed the round-up a “progrom i• Bud compored it in horrnisto the: SI. Bartholomew massacre nf pro- i■ testa ills in France Aug. 24, 1B72 1 ‘ when 50,000 Huguenots were mas- • mcrcd, though in thi3 case the idea » ■; nus not to kill hut to deport Jews• for slave labor'for Germany.Used Whip ■ lt;At the Rothschild hospital, the i- jtatcment said a Gestapo agent i ■; notorious for Ins cruelty at the i- Jewish concentration camp at Cam- t piegne personally directed the era- :-nation with a whip in his hand,-' Fighting French headquarters * mid the Vichy policy had roused riolent opposition in occupied 1 France and that at Buch towns as Nice, Marseilles-and Lyons the peo-ole, including, many studenta, defended the. Jews, abused police and : formed protective cordons to pre-rent seizures when Vichy at the behest of the Germans began its round-up Aug. 26. . .After the papal envoy to Vichy, ; Msgr. Valerio Valeri, had made one . ofa number of protests to Marshal .Henri Philippe Fetain, it was said, .the Vichy propaganda minister is-med an order fce newspapers:Press Warned “On no account should mention ; je made of the Vatican protest to • Marshal Retain in favor of the lows of France ” :'■ French Catholics demon si rated In several ways that they were i wave of the Vatican attitude, the fighting French statement said.It was added that the anti-Jew- : i?h drive was one of the most unpopular of Pierre Laval's acts since he returned to power.His position was already inse-ture anil it is unlikely to he reinforced by this In test proof of hie mbscrviencc to Berlin,” fighting France said.It was charged that, though the -Germans had demanded of Lnvnl10,000 foreign Jews refuged in unoccupied France ho had arrested ‘‘many time that number” and that *t feast 10,000 already had been He ported to Germany.-o -
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Sat, Sep 05, 1942
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