French newspapers reported today the existence of a “no-man’s-land” colony comprising 9,000 Jews in the Burgenland section of the German-Hungarian frontier.
The Jews, according to the Havas News Agency, had been arrested by the Gestapo last July in raids throughout Austria. They were subsequently forced across the border into the “no-man’s-land” area, having been deprived of their passports, left with ten marks each and warned that they would be shot if they attempted to return to German soil.
The majority of the victims were said to have lived in Austria for 25 years. Their property was confiscated by the Nazis on various pretexts.
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