The Polish Consulate in Berlin is besieged by applications for visas made by Polish Jewish citizens anxious to return to Poland, according to a report by the Polish Consul in Berlin to the Foreign Office here. According to the report of the Consulate in Berlin among the applicants are not only many Polish Jews who have for long resided in Germany, but also German-Jewish citizens wishing to leave for Poland.
The extent of the alarm felt in Germany is illustrated by the fact that frontier posts have reported attempts by German Jews to cross the frontier into Poland.
Conditions in Germany are now the main subject of conversation and comment among Polish Jews who are seriously disquieted as to the fate of German Jewry. A constant stream of inquiries regarding conditions in Germany is reaching the offices of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here.
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