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The outbreak of war in September 1939 led to severe disruption of communications, and travel from Germany to France and Britain become extremely difficult. Until the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands and Belgium in May 1940 a small number of children did manage to reach Britain by way of the Netherlands. Thereafter, it was almost impossible.

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