Axis Reign Of Terror In Tunis
LONDON. May 16. Details of the German and Italian reign cf terror are being filled in as the French and Jews emerge from hiding, says the “Daily Mail's" Tunis correspondent. At a Beethoven concert, arranged by the Germans on May 2. Storm Troopers arrived arid arrested men in the audience. They took them away in trucks. The Germans were getting some of the BCOO workers wanted for fortifying the city. They also fined Jews the equivalent of £114,000 after the > Allies first bombed Tunis because the Jews "instigated the capitalist war." The British United Press Tunis correspondent says the search is proceeding for Fascists hiding throughout the city in friends’ and relatives’ cellars. A number of Italian and German army officers ordered civilian clothes from Tunis tailors three weeks before the city fell. Many Italians asked barbers for new kinds of haircuts before the Axis defences collapsed, and a number of Germans had their hair dyed.
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Northern Advocate, 18 May 1943, Page 1
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