Hundreds of expectant Jewish mothers are taking trips to England to give birth in order to obtain British citizenship for their children.
Anxious to prevent their children from coming under the Nazi laws relegating the Jews to second-class citizenship, the mothers, in many cases, go so far as to risk airplane trips across the Channel.
In addition to the fact that children born in Britain automatically become British subjects, they can, at the age of only a few days, apply for admission of their parents into the country.
These applications are made by guardians or agents for the children, and the British authorities are disposed to treat them favorably.
In many cases, the Jewish mothers are attended in England by German Jewish doctors, some times by their old family physicians, since many have left the Reich and set up practice in Britain.
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