Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1999) 131-154
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Kristallnacht, 1938
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Because of the economic crisis, the Polish government encouraged emigration, and especially of Jews, who were considered particularly undesirable; it was said that many were paupers, others politically subversive, and all formed a harmful foreign element in the Polish nation. Certainly the Poles opposed the return of those who had already emigrated. Soon after the Anschluss, when the return of Polish Jews, especially from Austria, became a flood, the Foreign Ministry instructed the consulates to prepare the cancellation of Polish citizenship of large categories of Jews living in Germany and Austria; on 31 March the Sejm passed a law to this effect. Although on 28-29 October, when Germany arrested and expelled Polish Jews, some Polish consuls protected them, and although the consuls were appalled at the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, they continued the process of expatriation.
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