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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (237374)	7/21/2007 1:21:58 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Albert Einstein left Germany in 1933 I think. Early in the rise of Hitler but probably he just barely escaped For the rich and famous the rules were always different. Freud got out in 1938 when the Nazis took Austria. The point is, that even for those who wanted to get out early, there was scarcely any place to go. The Brits stopped emigration to Palestine after 1936, the US State Dept was determined to keep out as many Jews as it could. So the refugees often wound up in Holland or France, which provided very temporary shelter. And that's the German and Austrian Jews, who had ample warning. The Polish Jews were poor and didn't live with Nazism. Not only did they not see the full effects, there was no way they could forsee what would happen. After all, the Germans controlled Poland during WWI and were generally nicer to the Jews than the anti-Semitic Poles! Who could believe that the German state would expend so much effort to destroy people, contrary even to its own interests?