The Daily Life of Jews in Germany, February '39 
 The Daily Life of Jews in Germany, A memorandum sent by Georg Landauer, Director of the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine to Arthur Ruppin in Jerusalem, February 1939 
 Source: Saul Friedlaender Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. I – The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 (New-York 1997) p. 317. 
 'Only the employees of Jewish organisations and some people who rent rooms or cater meals are still earning something.... In West Berlin [a Jew] can get a coffee only in the waiting room of the Zoo [railroad] station, a meal in a Chinese or some other foreign restaurant. As the Jews' leases are constantly being rescinded in buildings inhabited by a mixed population', they increasingly move in with each other and brood over their fate. Many of them have not yet recovered from the 10th of November and are still fleeing from place to place in Germany or hiding in their apartments. Travel agencies, mainly in Paris, get in touch with consulates that can be bribed - this is mainly true of Central and South American republics - and purchase visas to foreign countries for high prices and enormous commissions. It has often happened that, having suddenly granted several hundred visas, consuls pocketed the money and were then dismissed by their governments. After that, the chances of Jews to enter the countries concerned disappear for a long time. Early in the morning, Jews appear at travel agencies and stand in long lines waiting to ask what visas one can obtain that day.'