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APPENDIX C: NOTES ON SOME CASES AFFORDING CERTAIN
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Palestine. HMG, responsible under the Mandate,
introduced increasingly severe controls on the
immigration of Jews, resulting in the turning away of
would-be immigrants, some of whom perished eg 750
Rumanian Jews aboard the SS "Struma" which sank in the
Black Sea. After the War HMG continued to control
immigration, including returning Jews to Germany and
using Navy ships to intercept refugees at sea eg SS
"President Warfield".
ceased to date.
Attacks on HMGS policy have not
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Cossacks and Yugoslavs. At the end of the War, in
conditions of considerable confusion, some thousands of
people, not all ex-collaborators with the Germans, were
forcibly handed over to Stalin's and Tito's forces.
Those returned were severely treated, and many executed.
It is debatable how far the handing over was the decided
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