The Archive · 1941

Families Often Scattered

"A man's home may be taken away: from him suddenly without and without redress. He be taken away to labour in Germany, and his family may be scattered, taken away to some other part of the country and just left there. Thousands of people have been turned out of their homes in the industrial areas of France to make way for German settlers and even more have been moved about in Puland at the will of the Nazis, A letter recently received in America from a Catholic priest of Alsace gives a vivid description of how this is done. He was arrested on the charge' of being a Jesuit. With three other priests he was confined for six weeks and then as he writes we were informed that

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