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The UK Rescued 4,000 Jewish Men after Kristallnacht
(Times of Israel) Robert Philpot - In the aftermath of Germany's Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, the British government agreed to admit thousands of Jewish refugees, albeit under stringent conditions, and they were interned at the "Kitchener Camp." This undoubtedly saved the lives of nearly 4,000 German and Austrian Jewish men. The Central British Fund (CBF) for German Jewry agreed to arrange the refugees' transport and accommodation and, because the men wouldn't be allowed to work, to provide them with financial support while they were in the UK. The Home Office demanded that the men leave Britain and emigrate within 12 months. Nearly 900 of the Kitchener men joined the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, a labor and logistics section of the British Army, and were sent to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force in early 1940.