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    "ocrText": "-3-\nFor reasons that are obvious, most Jews want to leave Germany\nand Austria as soon as possible. Their desire to leave Germany is\nan urgent one. The life they have led for the past ten years, a life\nof fear and wandering and physical torture, has made them impatient\nwith delay. They do not look kindly on the idea of waiting around\nin idleness and discomfort in a German camp for many months until a\nleisurely solution is found for them.\nSome wish to return to their countries of nationality but the\ngreat majority do not. With respect to possible places of resettle-\nment for those who may be stateless or who do not wish to return to\ntheir homes, Palestine is definitely and pre-eminently the first choice.\nMany now have relatives there, while others, having experienced in-\ntolerance and persecution in their homelands for years, feel that only\nin Palestine will they be welcomed and find peace and quiet and be\ngiven an opportunity to live and work. Palestine, while clearly the\nchoice of most, is not the only named place of possible emigration.\nSome, but the number is not large, wish to emigrate to the United\nStates where they have relatives, others to England, the British\nDominions, or to South America.\nIII\nAside from having brought relief from the fear of extermination,\nhospitalization for the serious starvation cases and some general im-\nprovement in conditions under which displaced persons in general are\ncompelled to live, the liberators have done relatively little beyond\nthe planning stage, during the period of mass repatriation, to meet\nthe special needs of the formerly persecuted groups. The entire\nemphasis has been upon repatriation.\nIV\nNow that the worst of the pressure of mass repatriation is over,\nit\n\"MATIONAL\nAROHIV es AND\nRECORDS\nSERVICE"
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