Reports published during the week-end in the London press indicate that Berlin is being flooded with Polish Jews, fleeing in large numbers from the anti-Semitism of Polish nationalists.
Their number is so great, the Daily Mail reported, that Anglo-American control officers have had to turn to their governments for guidance in handling the situation. It is estimated that 200 of these refugees are arriving daily after a long train ride through the Russian zone of occupation. Already thousands of them have reached Berlin and there are no signs of the traffic slackening.
The newly arrived Jews are quoted as saying that many more will follow them and that the flight will not halt until every Jew is out of Poland. Polish nationalists, they say, have revived the old cry of “Poland for the Polish.”
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