- Headline
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Thousands of Jews Are Deported
- Sub-Headline
- Germany Acts Swiftly to Return Several Thousand Male Polish Jews to Homeland Before Tightening of Polish Citizenship Laws; Misunderstanding Is Seen.
- Publication Date
- Saturday, October 29, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- Berlin, Oct. 28.—(AP)—Germany acted swiftly today to return several thousand male Polish Jews to their homeland before the tightening of Polish citizenship law might block their reentry.
(In Warsaw an informed source said that "in all probability" the German action would be held up and that it apparently had resulted from "a misunderstanding" of Poland's new citizenship law requiring revalidation of Polish passports held abroad.)
In Berlin alone several hundred Polish Jews were rounded up in the early morning. From Vienna, Cologne, Braunschweig, and other cities came reports of new measures against Jews.
Authoritative sources said several thousand men were taken to the Polish border today and others were expected to be moved within the next few days. Women relatives said they were not told whether they would be able to follow their kin.
Jews with Polish citizenship have been a constant snag in the anti- Semitic movement in Germany, since ordinary measures failed to reach them as completely as German Jews.
The government estimates that 150,000 Poles are living in Germany, but only a fraction of these are Jews.
Law Effective Sunday
A new Polish law effective Sunday provides that Poles living abroad must have their passports certified by consular offices or lose their right to reenter Poland.
The measure was interpreted in Polish Jewish circles as an attempt to deprive Polish Jews abroad of their passports.
The German government was represented in informed quarters as fearful that many Poles would not receive a revalidation stamp by tomorrow and would become public charges.
Weeping women and children, who saw their husbands, sons, and fathers seized by Berlin police in the early morning hours, milled excitedly outside the police barracks where the men were held during the day.
The women carried battered suitcases, blankets, food, and cigarettes for the men. They were not permitted to see the men or say good-bye and were not told the plans for their evacuation.
In Vienna police were assisted by S. S. (black-shirted) guards in a systematic search of the Jewish section. The number of Polish Jews taken into custody was not known, but it was estimated to exceed 2,000.
About 500 of those arrested were Hungarian and Rumanian Jews and they later were released.
The number of Polish Jews in Vienna was estimated at 8,000 and it was considered likely there that Polish Jews not repatriated might be taken to a new concentration camp at Mauthausen in Upper Austria. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jennifer G.
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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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