 The Zionist leadership in the British Mandate of Palestine wrote in February 1938 that according to "a very reliable private source—one which can be traced back to the highest echelons of the SS leadership", there was "an intention to carry out a genuine and dramatic pogrom in Germany on a large scale in the near future".In August 1938, German authorities announced that residence permits for foreigners were being canceled and would have to be renewed.This included German-born Jews of foreign citizenship.