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Palestine. HMG, responsible under the Mandate,

introduced increasingly severe controls on the

immigration of Jews, resulting in 1the 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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At the end of the War, Cossacks and Yugoslavs.

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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