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Facts

Date December 1, 1938 - 1940
Location Europe
Context Kristallnacht

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Kindertransport
Kindertransport—The Arrival
Für das Kind—Wien
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Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
prime minister of United Kingdom