Some 2,300 Jews, all survivors of the Nazi regime, have fled the Soviet zone of Germany to West Berlin since the establishment of the East German Republic, it was reported here today on the basis of reliable information. Hundreds of them sought asylum in West Germany during the last few weeks.
Reports received here from the East zone state that last week more Jews were arrested there and charged with being “Zionist and imperialist agents.” Few Jews remain in the higher echelons of the Communist Party in East Germany, the reports assert, and in many cases Jews have been expelled from the only organization of victims of Nazism in the country. At present there are only about 2,500 Jews left in East Germany.
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