A three-hour conference late this afternoon between George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Refugee Bureau, and Dr. Helmut Wohlthat, Economics Ministry official, failed to iron out the final difficulties regarding the emigration plan of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former Reichsbank president, which forms the basis of the current negotiations. A third conference is scheduled for tomorrow.
Jewish emigrants paid $2,000,000 marks (about $36,000,000) in “flight” taxes for the privilege of leaving Germany during the three months ending Dec. 31, as compared with 67,000,000 marks in the same period of 1937, it was revealed today.
Of a total of 3,750 Jewish shops in Berlin last August, the owners of only 700 succeeded in selling their enterprises, it was disclosed. Of the remainder that were to be closed by Jan. 1, 500 were approved for sale but had no buyers, while the others were declared superfluous, representing a total loss except for pittances paid for their merchandise. The bulk of the abandoned shops were situated in Berlin side streets. In Hamburg, only 87 out of 1,100 Jewish shops were permitted to be sold.
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