"Germany must be a country with no future for them"—guided by this principle, Jews in Germany were stripped of their rights, dispossessed, and humiliated in the lead-up to the Second World War, all with the aim of driving them out of the country. But where could they go? Susanne Heim provides the first systematic examination of the insidious barriers that the free nations of the world erected against these refugees. Her compellingly written book vividly illustrates why so few Jews managed to escape—before the Nazi state ultimately banned emigration and orchestrated mass murder.