Polish Government circles reported today that Soviet Russia and Germany were negotiating an agreement to repatriate over 60,000 Poles and Jews who fled from Nazi-occupied Poland to the Soviet area. Germany, in turn, would turn over to the Soviet about 14,000 persons in Nazi-held Poland who were born in the Soviet area.
Enforcement of such a treaty would mark a departure from Soviet policy, which has permitted refugees from Nazi Poland to remain in the Soviet area and either apply for Soviet citizenship or be considered as “stateless,” to be treated in the same manner as “stateless” persons in other European countries.
It is understood that the initiative for the negotiation of the agreement was taken by the Nazis.
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