Heard on a WW II documentary the other night that pre-war Germany had an estimated 500,000 Jews. (Apocalypse WW II or one of those shows). Half fled pre war according to that source. Some to US, some to UK, some to France. Ones that went to France were rounded up after German occupation. French were not shy about turning them in. Poland had 3 million. USSR 2.5 million.
Many Jews who waited too long and who couldn’t get to the UK, France, or the US because of quotas, fled on cargo ships to Shanghai, China which became quite an international mix of peoples. Eventually, Shanghai came under Japanese control and, interestingly, they were not the monsters the Germans were. They tolerated the Jews, and even befriended those who came to work fo them.
