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They didn't flee the war. They fled the Nazi oppression before the war. See "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.

Once the war started, the borders were closed.



Not quite true in regard to border closures. It certainly became much more difficult to move around or out of Occupied Europe, but significant numbers of people managed to do so (via for example Portugal, Turkey and Vichy Africa).




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