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To: Chas. who wrote (69181)12/7/2010 8:07:43 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (2) of 219176
 
OT - The St. Louis and U.S. Policy Failures
German Jews Denied Entrance to America in 1939 (this is one small example)

Allowing 937 Jews to leave Germany in May 1939 served Nazi propaganda goals, particularly when the the United States rejected asylum after Cuba refused their entry visas.

In May 1939, the S.S. St. Louis sailed out of Hamburg, Germany bound for Havana with 937 Jewish men, women, and children. It was only seven months since Kristallnacht had wrecked a bloody havoc on the Jews in the German Reich and only five months from the outbreak of World War II.

The plight of these Jews would become intimately entangled with insensitive American immigration quotas, President Franklin Roosevelt’s political expediency, and deeply rooted Anti-Semitism in the United States.

Both Dachau and Buchenwald camps were in full operation, a fact known to most foreign governments including the United States.


Read more at Suite101: The St. Louis and U.S. Policy Failures: German Jews Denied Entrance to America in 1939 suite101.com

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