Descendant d'une famille de propriétaires terriens de Prusse-Orientale, appartenant à l'aristocratie militaire des Junkers, il intègre le corps des Cadets prussiens. Il est blessé au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale. Riche propriétaire, agronome compétent, il devient président de l'Association des agriculteurs de Dantzig. Pensant que le national-socialisme était le seul moyen de sortir l'Allemagne de la situation pénible qu'elle connaissait alors, il adhère au NSDAP, puis est élu au Sénat de Dantzig, devenue ville-libre. Mais quand le parti commence à exiger de lui qu'il mette en ?uvre le Gleichschaltung (processus tendant à établir le totalitarisme), fasse arrêter les prêtres catholiques s'opposant au régime, applique la législation discriminatoire à l'égard des Juifs et supprime […]

Jewish Telegraphic Agency published 08/04/1941 Berne, Switzerland, Apr. 7 (JTA) – Another 140,000 Jews were brought under the threat of Nazi Blitzkrieg today as the German armed forces pressed their invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. First of the cities to feel the effects of Nazi terror from the air were the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Sarajevo and the Greek seaport of Salonika, which have relatively large Jewish populations. Salonika has 50,000 Jews, most of them concentrated in one section. Recent reports from Salonika said adequate air-raid shelters had been built in the Jewish quarter, which bore the brunt of the early Italian raids, and that the Jews were facing the German invasion calmly. There are about 75,000 Jews in Yugoslavia and 65,000 in Greece. Last week, in […]

Jewish Telegraphic Agency published 08/04/1941 London, Apr. 7 (JTA) – The News-Chronicle reported today that the Government would take immediate steps to deal with Jestem Polakem, Polish nationalist weekly, whose violent anti-Jewish attacks were declared to be causing "serious concern to the British Government." A possible method of dealing with the publication would be to deny it newsprint paper. Mesure d'audience ROI statistique webanalytics par

Jewish Telegraphic Agency published 20/08/1941 Rabat, Algeria, Aug. 19 (JTA) – Vichy Commissioner for Jewish Affairs Arrives in Algeria with Anti-jewish Plans. Pursuing the plan of the Vichy Government to extend the French anti-Jewish laws to the 110,000 Jews of Algeria, Xavier Vallat, French Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, arrived here today from Vichy. He was met by French military representatives and by a representative of the Sultan. Timing its broadcast to the arrival of Commissioner Vallat, the Nazi-controlled radio station in Paris broadcast the provocative news that "Jews have arrived from Tel Aviv and Haifa to Syria and Lebanon to settle there on Moslem land." A vast plan for the colonization of Jews in Syria and Lebanon is already being implemented, the broadcaster alleged. […]

Jewish Telegraphic Agency published 28/11/1941 Zurich, Nov. 27 (JTA) – All Jews were barred from appearing in the Prague castle and its surroundings, in a decree issued today by the Chief of Police in the city. The Prague castle is the headquarters of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi "Protector" of Bohemia and Moravia. Mesure d'audience ROI statistique webanalytics par

Jewish Telegraphic Agency published 20/03/1942 Zurich, Mar. 19 (JTA) – Vichy Authorities, Acting on Nazi Complaints, Will Tighten Anti-jewish Laws. The Vichy authorities, following German complaints, have decided to take measures for stricter enforcement of anti-Jewish regulations, which in the view of the Nazis and their French collaborators are interpreted too leniently in many districts, the Lyons radio announced today. Xavier Vallat, Commissar for Jewish Affairs, is at present touring France to tighten control of local administration of the various anti-Jewish and racial laws. Special instructions will be issued to local authorities and Vallat will personally explain how the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs expects these local administrators to enforce the anti-Semitic regulations, […]

Jewish Telegraphic Agency published 17/05/1942 Berne, May. 15 (JTA) – Reinhard Heydrich, deputy chief of the Gestapo, who was sent from Prague to Paris to introduce new methods of crushing growing anti-Nazi resistance there, conferred with Commissar for Jewish Affairs Darquier de Pellepoix before leaving for Holland, according to reports reaching here today. An indication of Heydrich's "new methods" was contained in a broadcast on the Berlin radio which reported that a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy named Kirschen has been sentenced by the Paris military court to ten years' imprisonment for alleged anti-German activities in France. Another Berlin broadcast heard here today reported that a court in the German capital has ruled that Jews can not be sentenced to loss of civil rights […]

Jewish Telegraphic Agency published 31/05/1942 Berne, May. 29 (JTA) – New “protector” for Bohemia and Moravia Was Gestapo Agent at Berne “protocols” Trial. Jews in the Czech Protectorate will face increased restrictions and terror as a result of the appointment of Kurt Daluege, a fanatical Jew-hater, as "Protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, replacing Reinhard Heydrich, who is hovering between life and death in Prague as a result of an attempt to assassinate him, well-informed circles here declared today. Daluege is remembered in Berne from his activities in October, 1934 when he was sent here by the Gestapo in an attempt to influence the Swiss court that was trying a group of Swiss Nazis being sued for libel by the Berne Jewish Community for issuing and distributing the "Protocols of […]