- Headline
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Hitler Deporting Polish Jews by Thousands To Foil New Warsaw Law
- Sub-Headline
- Nazis Send Them Back To Forestall Poland's Plans to End Citizenship of Non-Residents
- Publication Date
- Friday, October 28, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- BERLIN, Oct. 23.—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 semi-officially 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 Oct. 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.
Semi-official German sources said it was feared that those who did not receive revalidation might become public charges. After midnight tomorrow they could not be sent back to Poland.
Failure to reach an agreement with Poland until now, these sources said, "compelled German authorities to take measures for reducing the number of those who, in all likelihood, will not receive the revalidation stamp."
Germany gave Jews first attention
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(Please Turn to Page 4, Column 2). - History Unfolded Contributor
- Patricia P.
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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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