A picture of the plight of the refugees from the Buchy of Luxemburg, many of them Jews was painted by Pierre Krier, Minister of Labor and Mines, in an interview with the J.T.A.
Krier has just arrived in England from Lisbon, where he has been ever since the fall of France assisting the Luxemburg refugees to safety.
Throughout their journey, said Krier, the refugees were followed everywhere by agents of the German police, and there were even cases where trainloads of refugees who had already reached the Portuguese frontier were obliged to return to the French frontier at Hendaye. In the case of some of the refugees–Germans who had lived in Luxemburg ever since they left Germany–such was their desperation that they even applied for aid to the German Embassy in Lisbon.
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