Dr. Paul Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, today told the world that local Nazi authorities have been given orders to annihilate “without any mercy” the Jews in Germany and in occupied countries. He added that the Jews all over the world will similarly be exterminated if the Nazis lay their hands on them.
“Germany must destroy the Jews and there can be no mercy,”Goebbels says in an article under his signature published in Das Reich, official organ of the Ministry of Propaganda. “The slightest weakness in the solution of the Jewish question might endanger Germany as well as the whole of Europe.”
“The extinction of the Jewish race is of historic importance,” Goebbels continues. “It cannot be stopped. The day will come when the Jews all over the world will receive the same punishment which the Jews under Germany are now undergoing. The Jews want the defeat of the Axis, therefore it is nothing more than obvious that we should first get rid of our enemies at home in order to effectively fight our enemy outside our borders.”
Reports from Rumania reaching here today state that all synagogues in Bucharest were raided by the police during the Passover services. Hundreds of Jewish worshippers were arrested and taken from the synagogues to labor camps.
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