The Berlin City Council discussed to-day a resolution to deport 3,665 unemployed aliens living in the capital, 916 of them Staatenlose, and the great majority of them Jews. The maintenance of these alien unemployed costs the City Treasury 1½ million Marks annually in welfare work, it was pointed out.
In reply to intervention by the Jewish Community, the Lord Mayor of Berlin, Herr Sahm, has given an assurance that there will be no mass deportation, that each case would be dealt with individually on its merits, and that bardships would be avoided as far as possible.
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