Expulsion of scores of Jews from the East Austrian province of Burgenland is being carried out on direct orders from Berlin, it was reliably learned here today.
No Jew will be permitted to live within fifty kilometers of the border “for strategic reasons,” it was learned. A contributory reason for the banishment is the Nazis’ desire to prevent Jews from maintaining contact with relatives abroad, particularly in Hungary.
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