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Rules for Refugee Registration

September 19, 1939
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In a written reply to a question by Col. Josiah Wedgwood, who asked whether in the arrangements made for alien refugees now in England the stateless Jews would rank as Czechs or Germans, Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary, said:

“Refugees from Germany and Austria who were nationals of those countries are registered as either Germans or Austrians and must, therefore, be so classified for the purpose of the review of all German and Austrian cases notwithstanding that they may have been deprived of German nationality by some German law. Similarly, if there are any nationals of the former Republic of Czecho-Slovakia who have by German law been deprived of their nationality, they will nevertheless be classified here as Czecho-Slovakians.”

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