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Report by Van Thadden and Wagner regarding the failed "Feldscher plan"

Report by Van Thadden and Wagner regarding the failed "Feldscher plan" Drafts and lectures by Thadden and Wagner, the administrators of Auswaertiges Amt, Inland II, regarding the failed "Feldscher plan"; plan for the exchange of Germans with 5,000 Jews, of whom 85 percent were children.

File Number : 265

Type of Material : Survey Report

The Feldscher action. Exchange of Jewish children

The Feldscher action. Exchange of Jewish children In the internal language of the German Foreign Office (AA) during the period of National Socialism, a series of diplomatic attempts by various states to obtain an exit permit from the German government for a limited number of Jews from the territory under German control in 1943 and 1944 were referred to as Feldscher action or Feldscher affair. The most important of these diplomatic advances was made by the Swiss envoy in Berlin, Peter Anton Feldscher, who, on behalf of the British government, tried to enable 5,000 Jewish people, most of them children, to...

File Number : 507

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German