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Jews Fleeing Czechoslovakia Will Not Be Considered Displaced Persons

March 12, 1948
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Officials of Jewish relief organizations here today said that they knew of only a “handful” of Jews who had fled from Czechoslovakia into Germany during the past week, following the Communist seizure of the Prague government. They declined to venture a prediction whether much larger numbers could be expected to slip across the heavily guarded frontier.

These arriving here will be treated by United States army officials in the same manner as German refugees who arrived from the Sudetenland from which they were expelled. They will not receive any kind of favored treatment, officials said, and will have to earn a living within the German economy. Just like the Rumanian and Hungarian Jews who arrived here after April 21, 1947.

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