On this day, 3 August 1939, Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were deported from the United Kingdom. They had left Belgium in a 10-foot (3-metre) dinghy, which they intended to row to England, but bad weather caused them to capsize and almost drown in the Channel before they were saved by a lifeboat. Both said they would have preferred to be drowned at sea than return to Germany. They were returned to Belgium, where they had permission to stay until the end of the month. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1180196262165522/?type=3
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We’re doing this now.We’re sending people back to countries they’ve fled, because they’ll be killed if they go...
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