[Deedes, Wyndham] London. Report to the Undersecretary of State, Foreign Office., 1938 April 28

Enclosed with No. 1004. Went to Vienna to inquire into situation of Jewish Community there; found it extremely grave; many Jews in Vienna and provinces arrested without cause; Jewish businesses ruined or taken over by Aryans without compensation; small Jewish communities also victimized; after being disposessed of all they owned, Jews were forced to sign declaration that they were giving up their possesions and leaving voluntarily; ill treatment and seizure of property the work of S.A., S.S., and Gestapo; no complaints made against Vienna police or members of regular forces; immediately urgent to secure release of those Jews in prison and stop the confiscation of Jewish property; authorities freely admitted the Jews must leave Austria and that the same fate would befall Jews in Hungary, Poland, and Rumania.