A Berlin dispatch to the New York Times reported today that Jewish emigration from Germany, chiefly to Palestine and the Americans, has continued at the rate of about 2,000 each month since the war as compared with 3,000 before hostilities began.
The dispatch pointed out that efforts to fulfill the emigration program were spurred by the dwindling finances of the Jewish community, estimated as sufficient to last “a doubtful 18 months longer under the increasing pressure of Nazi demands, ” and the prospect of being deported to the projected Jewish “reservation” in Poland.
A Berlin dispatch to the Times yesterday reported that a transport of 300 Jews aged 18 to 30, most of them unemployed Sudetenland refugees, had left for Poland on Oct. 31. The report said it was becoming apparent that the deportation of Jews was now “extending to the entire territory of the protectorate.”
The New York Herald Tribune reported from Berlin yesterday that the Jews in the Old Reich would follow their co-religionists from other German territories into the Jewish “reservation.” The Tribune correspondent, Beach Conger, said that the entire process of forced emigration was expected to be completed within the year and would result in “Germany proper having no Jewish inhabitants.”
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