From 1941 to 1943 , Wang also visited Romania , Bulgaria , Hungary and Slovakia with Minister Lü to present the credentials . Jewish people under the ruling of Nazi Germany were to be treated indiscrimentally . In 1938 , the '' Kristallnacht '' reflected the extent of unpopularity of Jewish presence in Germany . At that time , one way to escape from the atrocity was to travel to the U.S. ; however , Jewish people could not directly go to U.S. from Germany . They must travel to Manchukuo first , and then they had to go to Shanghai and depart from Shanghai to the U.S. Entering Manchukuo required a valid visa , and Wang Tifu 's duty was to issue Manchukuo visas to applicants . Between the spring of 1939 and May 1940 , he roughly issued 12,000 visas to Jewish people . In mid-1939 , German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop met with Lü Yiwen and required Manchukuo to issue visas for the Jewish people who wanted to leave Germany for the U.S . This action was a part of the plan that eliminated the existence of Jewish people in Germany . Minister Lü was unpleasant with this unexpected request from Germany , but he appointed Wang to take in charge of this task . For Wang Tifu , he accepted the task without hesitation and believed that it was a relief for him as he has witnessed the German atrocities against Jewish people and he felt sympathetic towards them . On June 10 , 1939 , Wang started to issue visas with his assistant . He recalled that he only had one thought in his mind at that time : Issuing as many visas as possible ; after two months , he had issued over 7,000 visas
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