In so far as the anti-Semitism of Hitler’s regime had a coherent objective in the 1930s, it was the removal of Jews from German soil. In this respect it was fairly ‘successful’ in 1933, with 37,000 German Jews driven out of the country by the violence of the seizure of power. The ‘problem’ was that emigrants, unless they were very desperate, would move in large numbers only if they were permitted to take at least some of their possessions with them. German Jews were no different in this respect than any other migrant population. The Reichsbank was required by its statutes to provide migrants
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