- Headline
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Hitler Orders Thousands Put In Death Camps
- Sub-Headline
- Refugees Clamor To Get Into Unoccupied France To Escape Terror; Families Are Separated
- Publication Date
- Sunday, July 26, 1942
- Historical Event
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Police Round Up Paris Jews—Deportations Feared
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- Page Section and Number
- 28
- Author/Byline
- UPI
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- LONDON, July 25.—(U.P.)—Hundreds of frantic refugees from central Europe tonight begged admittance to unoccupied France in their efforts to escape a nazi purge of the occupied zone that has rounded up from 15.000 to 18.000 men, women and children for shipment to concentration camps in Poland.
The roundup, carried out by Heinrich Himmler's black-shirted SS troops and French, police, was the biggest since forces took over from the German army the job of policing occupied France.
VILLAGES LIQUIDATED
The wholesale arrests were revealed in private advices to the United Press from the continent and coincided with these new developments in the Axis reign of terror throughout subjugated Europe:
1. The Germans, Italians and their puppet regimes began a systematic and ruthless destruction of entire villages and towns in Poland and Yugoslavia—some by air bombings—in an effort to crush spreading guerrilla activity.
2. A fresh wave of resistance in Poland was reported to have been touched off by the landing of "several hundred" Russian parachutists, each well-trained saboteur, to organize Polish guerrillas and carry out attacks on Germans garrisons and communications lines.
3. The Aneta Dutch News agency reported that 60.000 Jews have been arrested and shipped from Amsterdam since last Thursday in mass deportation to nazi-occupied Russia and Poland of Dutch "non-Aryans."
600 JEWS GO DAILY
Quoting advices from Zurich and Stockholm, Aneta said that about 600 Jews will be deported daily from Holland under a decree providing for the exile of all Dutch Jews between 18 and 40.
The roundup in France, on Adolf Hitler's direct orders is directed against all German, Austrian, Polish, Italian and Czechoslovak refugees who arrived in France since the outbreak of war in September, 1939, whether they are Jewish or "Aryan."
Entire families were seized—men, women and children more than eight years of age. The families were broken up, the men being taken to a concentration camp at Compiegne, the women to a camp at Nancy and the children to the winter sports palace in Paris. Children under eight were turned over to orphanages or, in some cases, taken in by neighbors. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Amy M.
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Bibliography
Klarsfeld, Serge. Vichy–Auschwitz: Le rôle de Vichy dans la Solution Finale de la question Juive en France—1942. Paris: Fayard, 1983.
Lévy, Claude, and Paul Tillard. Betrayal at the Vél d'Hiv. New York: Hill and Wang, 1969.
Lévy, Claude, and Paul Tillard. La Grande Rafle du Vél d'Hiv (16 juillet 1942), Nouvelle édition. Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1992.
Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944. Columbia University Press, 1972.
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