A law will be issued soon fixing the percentage of their wealth that Jewish emigrants will be permitted to take out of the country, Joseph Buerckel, Reich Commissar for Austria, announced today at a press conference. “In my own personal opinion,” Buerckel said, “the Jews should be completely excluded from german culture and economy, which are national property, but Jews have certain international capacities, and I see no obstacle to their engaging in exporting and foreign trade.” Buerckel said that the number of political prisoners was 3,780, of whom 140 were in the Dachau concentration camp.
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