The resort island. Borkum, which up to the present had not admitted Jews, and as a result of which had acquired international notoriety for its consistent anti-Semitic standards, returned an overwhelming majority of Socialists and Democrats to office in the municipal elections and ousted the National Socialist regime which had been responsible for the anti-Semitic policy.
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