NAZI CORRUPTION
GRAFT AND EXTORTION IN FRANCE. GERMAN OFFICIALS MAKING FORTUNES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) I LONDON, September 15. Some officials of the German Purchasing Commissions in France are making fortunes by graft, reports . a neutral trader who has arrived at Lisf bon from Paris. ) He said that when arrested recently, Captain Weber, buyer for the German Air Ministry, had nearly £30,000 which he admitted was graft money. ; German officers were taking bribes ) for showing favour to wealthy Frenchmen. Buying organisations were corrupt from top to bottom and some personnel had been changed four times in the effort to root out grafters. More than 60,000,000,000 francs, representing £350,000,000, stands to the credit of Germany in the Bank of France. This represents accumulated French payments for the so-called “costs” of the German occupation. The money is idle because France has been so denuded of goods that the Germans cannot find enough of them to buy with the credits.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 5
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