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Even before
Kristallnacht, tens of thousands of Jews living in Germany but whose
origins were East European had been deported. The expulsion from the
Reich of Jews holding Polish passports was known as the Zbaszyn
deportation. On the evening of October 27, the German authorities
began to arrest these Jews in order to banish them to Poland. They
were thereupon transported immediately to the Polish border and
literally dumped there-without their possessions and without even an
opportunity to put their affairs in order. The deportees spent
months in the border area in limbo, because the Poles, too, were
unwilling to accept them. |
