Headline

Germany Has Begun Roundup Jew Population

Sub-Headline
Seversl Thousand Polish Jews Reported Sent Back Into Poland
Publication Date
Friday, October 28, 1938
Historical Event
Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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Article Type
News Article
Newspaper
Daily Advertiser
Location
Lafayette, Louisiana
Page Section and Number
1
Author/Byline
AP
Article Text
BERLIN Oct. 28 (AP)— Authoritative informants said today that the Nazi authorities already had sent several thousand Polish Jews living in Germany back into Poland following a nationwide roundup.

In Berlin alone several hundred Polish Jews were routed from their beds in early morning raids semiofficially explained as intended to forestall application of a new Polish law that might deprive thousands of Jews in Germany of Polish citizenship.

The German government estimated that 150,000 residents of Germany are Polish citizens. According to a Polish law coming into effect October 30 all these by that date must have their passports revalidated by Polish consulates.

Jewish circles estimated that the law applied to between 4,000 and 6,000 Jews In Germany.

Failure to obtain such revalidation will mean that the passport holder never again can enter Poland.
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Bibliography

Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Pehle, Walter H., ed. November 1938: From "Reichskristallnacht" to Genocide. New York: Berg, 1991.

Read, Anthony. Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror. New York: Times Books, 1989.

Schwab, Gerald. The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: Praeger, 1990.

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