- Headline
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Suggest U. S. "Mortgage" German Immigration Quota To Aid Jews
- Sub-Headline
- Efforts Being Made To Find Haven For Persecuted People
- Publication Date
- Thursday, November 17, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- BERLIN, Nov. 17 (AP)—Prominent Jews suggested today that the United States "mortgage" the German immigration quota for the next three years and accept 81,000 Jews immediately.
Frantically trying to arrange refuge from Nazi persecution they pleases that American, England and France and Germany permit the German Jewish population to emigrate without passports and visas "because of the acute need."
The Jews kept away from population centers today, afraid that the funeral at Dusseldorf of Ernst Vom Rath might lead to more violence, like that of a week ago after the Paris embassy secretary died of wounds from a Jewish boy's revolver fire.
Jewish estimates today were that 56,000 of their number had been arrested, an increase from the 40,000 figure they gave yesterday.
They said they had reports from concentration camps that new Jewish prisoners were put in uniform and had their heads shaved after the usual custom, indicating they would not be released soon.
The first reaction to President Roosevelt's press conference statement of plans for an air force that could defend both North and South America came in an editorial published by Voelkischer Beobachter, Chancellor Hitler's newspaper.
It said the president pictured an "imaginary menance" to America and that suspicions were cast on other powers in the interest of United States armaments."
The Berlin Jews who proposed the emigration plan said there now are 500,000 Jews in Germany, not including Austria and Sudetenland.
They suggested:
Of these, 50,000 could be accepted by Palestine.
Another 100,00, over 60 years of age, would remain in Germany.
Wealthy relatives in foreign countries could take and support 25,000.
If the United States would open its immigration quota for 1939, 1940 and 1941, 81,000 could leave Germany. The annual American quota for German immigration is 27,000.
The 244,000 remaining would be taken by countries with colonies, principally France and England. (England, in consultation with the United States, is studying a project along this line.)
If the 31 countries represented by the Evian-Les-Bains international refugee committee could agree to such a scheme for old Germany, the Jewish group said a similar one could be devised for the recently annexed areas. - 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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