Jews of the Reich, of the Czech Protectorate and of Nazi-held Poland and the Baltic states who are now living abroad will have their property confiscated by the Nazis “for purposes connected with the solution of the Jewish problem,” it was announced today in Berlin over the German radio.
Simultaneously the Reichsanzeiger, German official gazette, published a decree which was also announced today over the radio, depriving the same categories of Jews of their citizenship, including “all Jews from territories lying east of the Reich” who are residing at present in foreign countries.
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