TORONTO – In certain ways, this autumn in the United States has recalled the autumn of 1938 in Nazi Germany, when mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s most ambitious coercive policies before the start of World War II. In the U.S., too, the connection between domestic repression and foreign aggression is coming into focus. That fall, the German police and SS rounded up 17,000 Jews with Polish citizenship and dumped them across the border, into neighboring Poland. This set off a chain of events which provides a useful perspective on where the U.S. is now. A family was deported; a desperate refugee took revenge; the government organized a pogrom and re-organized its police; war followed. The family was the Grynszpans. The father and mother had moved to Germany in 1911 from the Russian Empire. Their children were born in Germany, spoke German, and saw themselves as Germans. Their son Herschel had left to stay with relatives in Paris, where he faced a series of disappointments with his documentation, including the loss of his citizenship. Denied permanent residence