Apart from more or less explicit anti-Semitic prejudice, the open expressions of which provided a field day for the Nazi press, the main obstacle to any such relaxation of immigration quotas was the question of finance. How would the refugees support themselves in countries all of which were still suffering substantial unemployment? The answer to that question, it was commonly agreed, depended on the willingness of Germany to allow would-be emigrants to take with them at least some of their personal assets. The German government, however, refused to have anything to do with the Évian
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