Expelled! Berlin, 28 October 1938. The history of the "Polenaktion"
In the early morning of October 28, 1938, police in Berlin arrested more than 1,500 Jews in their flats or on the street and brought them to collection sites. They were transported later that day by train to the Polish border. Most had to disembark in Neu-Bentschen. Under guard and handeled brutally, they were forced to march to the German-Polish border near the town of Zbąszyń (Bentschen). They had been expelled from the German Reich because they were Polish citizens, although many had lived in Germany for decades and some had even been born there...
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