- Headline
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Nazis Throw 27,000 From Paris in Camps
- Sub-Headline
- Concentration Threat Put Up In Order to Get Skilled Workers
- Publication Date
- Monday, July 27, 1942
- Historical Event
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Police Round Up Paris Jews—Deportations Feared
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- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- NEW YORK, July 26. —(AP)—Twenty-seven thousand persons, mostly Jewish residents of Paris, have been rounded up and sent to concentration camps by Germans, according to reliable information reaching the Associated Press in New York, as a measure of increased pressure on the French to supply the nazi war industry with more skilled workers.
The arrests were effected by the French police on orders from the gestapo (German secret police), it was learned. The seizures, however, aroused such resentment among the people of Paris that they now have been discontinued.
Many Suicides
Numerous suicides have been reported by persons who managed to delay police a few minutes before they were to be taken into custody. Some of those threatened with arrest have thrown themselves and their children from windows rather than submit, the sources said.
Similar roundup tactics have been prevented in unoccupied France but the demand for more laborers, in the opinion of some observers, might soon result in strong measures there. It has even been suggested that force mobilization of workers might be demanded by the Germans.
Far Below Request
So far about 18,000 workers have gone to Germany from Vichy alone, Including 3,000 specialists, the latter of the greater interest to Germans and the only workers for whom war prisoners are exchanged.
The number of those who have gone to Germany is considerably below the number requested by the Germans and European diplomatic circles have predicted that some new action might be expected within the next ten days. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Judith H.
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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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