BAN DEFIED

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 190, 10 May 1938, Page 11

BAN DEFIED

Jewish Exile Returning To Germany “Dominion" Special Service.—-By- Air Mall. London, February 19. A 28-year-old German Jew, until recently a waiter in Soho, London, has risked the terrors of the concentration eamp by returning to Germany to see the woman he loves. Heinrich Schwab heard that his fiancee is ill. So he went back. He fell in love with Hilda Schmidt when she worked in a Berlin hotel with him. They planned to marry, but the Secret Police Intervened and he escaped the night before they came to arrest him at his lodgings, f For six months he worked in London and planned to bring Hilda over and make her his wife. Again the Nazis stepped in. Hilda lost her job and was told that she could not leave the country. Now she is out of work and ill. So he has decided to risk everything .and go back to her. Before he went he said: ‘‘l know that we shall probably never be allowed to meet, but I feel that I must take the risk. I saved up my money to bring Hilda over, and it broke my heart when I heard that she could not leave Germany. Since I left Germany a new law has been passed which forbids any Jew who has left the country from returning.” tie is prepared to go to prison for years if he is allowed to marry Hilda. Schwab has been to the German Consul, who has told him that if he explains the position he may be allowed to bring the girl back with him. If he succeeds he means to become a naturalised Englishman.