Netanyahu Was Right: He Wrote In 2015, 'Hitler Didn't Want To Exterminate The Jews'
By New Age Islam Staff Writer
13 October 2023
Netanyahu had said in 2015 that Hitler did not to
exterminate the Jews
Main Points:
1.
The US and Britain
Never Wanted Jews On Their Soil
2.
In 1922, Roosevelt
pressurised Harvard Board to reduce the number of Jews in Harvard University.
3.
Churchill thought
that Marx was a representative of the Jewish threat to civilisation.
4.
Nazi policy pursued
the expulsion not extermination of Jews.
5.
In 1938, Hitler
escalated his attacks on Jews sending 25,000 Jews to concentration camps.
6.
Between 1933 and
1941, more than 100 anti-semetic organisations were founded in the US.
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As the Israel- Hamas fighting is on, the debate on the
victimhood or otherwise of Israel has also started. A 2015 article has come
into light which quotes Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying
that Hitler did not want to exterminate Jews. He only wanted them to be
deported to the US or to Great Britain or somewhere else. Whenever the armed
conflict between Israel and Hamas intensifies, the US, the UK and other western
countries show moral and military support to Israel and try to convey the
impression to the world that they have real sympathy for the Jews. But their
actions and views before their transportation to Palestine prove otherwise. The
Prime Ministers of Britain and Presidents of the US apart from the common
people of the US did not want them on the US land. The US President Roosevelt
did not want to allow Jews into the US from Germany where they faced
persecution by Hitler. In 1938, a survey showed that the Americans held the
Jews themselves responsible for the treatment they were meted out in Germany.
Roosevelt refused to accept the Child Refugee Bill 1939. He did not allow
20,000 Jews under the age of 14 into the US. The degree of anti-Jews sentiments
among the Americans can be gauged by the fact that between 1933 and 1941, more
than 100 anti-Semetic organisations were founded in the US. Most of the
Americans thought that the inherent greed among the Jews may compel them to be
the spy of their enemies. The US immigration policy was heavily tilted against
the Jews. The admission of Jews into the US was severely restricted. Other
countries also wanted to expel them. Poland wanted to send them to Madagascar
while the Great Britain wanted to send them to Tanganyika in East Africa. In
1938, Hitler sent 25000 Jews to concentration camps. He wanted the US and
Britain to accept the Jews and mocked their hollow sympathy for the Jews. When
Netanyahu said that it was a Muslim cleric who advised Hitler to send the Jews
to Palestine, he was lying. Actually, the western nations had advised him to
send the Jews to Palestine.
Biden and other western leaders who are showing sympathy for
the Jews are actually hypocrites. They support Israel only because it serves
their political interests in the Middle East. A strong ally in the
neighbourhood of the oil rich Arab states keeps Arabs in constant fear due to
which they will continuously need the protective cover of the US. The US has
cleverly divided the Arabs in the Palestine issue to prevent any coordinated
attack on Israel. At a time when the US has openly announce its decision to
send military aid to Israel against Hamas, Muslim country Turkey has offered
his role as a mediator and Azerbaijan has supported Israel. The OIC, the paper
tiger is only doing lip service. The blockade of Gaza has crippled life of its
citizens but the UN and the Islamic world is only watching helplessly.
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David Watson.org
October 12, 2023
Netanyahu’s Lie Was That A Muslim Cleric From Palestine Convinced
Hitler To Kill Jews. But When Netanyahu Said That Hitler Originally Wanted To
Expel Jews, Not Murder Them, He Was Telling The Indisputable Truth. The Problem
Is That It Wasn’t A Muslim Cleric Who Convinced Hitler Otherwise. And It Isn’t
Any Secret Who It Was. It Was The World’s Governments.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hell-bent on
genocide, people keep sharing a scandalous article from 2015 called “Netanyahu:
Hitler Didn’t Want to Exterminate the Jews.” I’m afraid it may give people the
wrong idea. Netanyahu’s lie was that a Muslim cleric from Palestine convinced
Hitler to kill Jews. But when Netanyahu said that Hitler originally wanted to
expel Jews, not murder them, he was telling the indisputable truth. The problem
is that it wasn’t a Muslim cleric who convinced Hitler otherwise. And it isn’t
any secret who it was. It was the world’s governments.
If you were to listen to people justifying WWII today, and
using WWII to justify the subsequent 75 years of wars and war preparations, the
first thing you would expect to find in reading about what WWII actually was
would be a war motivated by the need to save Jews from mass murder. There would
be old photographs of posters with Uncle Sam pointing his finger, saying “I
want you to save the Jews!”
In reality, the U.S. and British governments engaged for
years in massive propaganda campaigns to build war support but never made any
mention of saving Jews.[i] And we know enough about internal governmental
discussions to know that saving Jews (or anyone else) was not a secret
motivation kept hidden from antisemitic publics (and if it had been, how
democratic would that have been in the great battle for democracy?). So, right
away we’re faced with the problem that the most popular justification for WWII
wasn’t invented until after WWII. Was WWII an accidentally just war? Or was it
justified by other factors that people understood and acted on at the time, but
which have become confused in the retelling? Let’s keep these questions in the
back of our heads, while making sure we fully understand what’s wrong with the
popular story.
Antisemitism was mainstream in U.S. and British culture at
the time of WWII and in the decades leading up to it, including among elites
and top elected officials. Franklin Roosevelt in 1922 had taken it upon himself
to convince the Harvard Board of Supervisors to gradually reduce the number of
Jews admitted to Harvard University.[ii] Winston Churchill in 1920 had authored
a newspaper article warning of the “sinister confederacy” of international
Jewry, which he called a “world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of
civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested
development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality.”[iii] Churchill
identified Karl Marx, among others, as representative of the Jewish threat to
civilization.
“Marxism represents the most striking phase of the Jewish
endeavour to eliminate the dominant significance of personality in every sphere
of human life and replace it by the numerical power of the masses.” That line
comes, not from Churchill, but from the 1925 book, My Struggle, by Adolf
Hitler.[iv]
U.S. immigration policy, crafted largely by anti-Semitic
eugenicists such as Harry Laughlin — themselves sources of inspiration to Nazi
eugenicists — severely limited the admission of Jews into the United States
before and during World War II.[v] Some segment of the U.S. population is aware
of this, I’ve found. The U.S. Holocaust Museum’s website informs visitors:
“Though at least 110,000 Jewish refugees escaped to the United States from
Nazi-occupied territory between 1933 and 1941, hundreds of thousands more
applied to immigrate and were unsuccessful.”[vi]
But very few, I’ve found, are aware that the policy of Nazi
Germany for years was to pursue the expulsion of the Jews, not their murder,
that the world’s governments held public conferences to discuss who would
accept the Jews, that those governments — for open and shamelessly anti-Semitic
reasons — refused to accept the Nazis’ future victims, and that Hitler openly
trumpeted this refusal as agreement with his bigotry and as encouragement to
escalate it.
When a resolution was introduced in the U.S. Senate in 1934
expressing “surprise and pain” at Germany’s actions, and asking that Germany
restore rights to Jews, the State Department stopped it from emerging out of
committee.[vii]
By 1937 Poland had developed a plan to send Jews to
Madagascar, and the Dominican Republic had a plan to accept them as well. Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain came up with a plan to send
Germany’s Jews to Tanganyika in East Africa. None of these plans, or numerous
others, came to fruition.
In Évian-les-Baines, France, in July 1938, an early
international effort was made, or at least feigned, to alleviate something more
common in recent decades: a refugee crisis. The crisis was the Nazi treatment
of Jews. The representatives of 32 nations and 63 organizations, plus some 200
journalists covering the event, were well aware of the Nazis’ desire to expel
all Jews from Germany and Austria, and somewhat aware that the fate that
awaited them if not expelled was likely going to be death. The decision of the
conference was essentially to leave the Jews to their fate. (Only Costa Rica
and the Dominican Republic increased their immigration quotas.) The decision to
abandon the Jews was driven primarily by antisemitism, which was widespread
among the diplomats in attendance and among the publics they represented. Video
footage from the conference is available on the website of the U.S. Holocaust
Museum.[viii]
These nations were represented at the Évian Conference:
Australia, the Argentine Republic, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, United Kingdom,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Sweden, Switzerland,
the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Italy refused to attend.
Australian delegate T. W. White said, without asking the
native people of Australia: “as we have no real racial problem, we are not
desirous of importing one.”[ix]
The dictator of the Dominican Republic viewed Jews as
racially desirable, as bringing whiteness to a land with many people of African
descent. Land was set aside for 100,000 Jews, but fewer than 1,000 ever
arrived.[x]
In “The Jewish Trail of Tears: The Évian Conference of July
1938,” Dennis Ross Laffer concludes that the conference was set up to fail and
put on for show. Certainly it was proposed by and chaired by a representative
of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt who chose not to make the necessary
efforts to aid Jewish refugees, before, during, or after the conference.[xi]
On the Fourth of July, 1938, New York Times foreign
correspondent, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne O’Hare McCormick
wrote: “A great power free to act has no alibi for not acting. . . . [I]t may
devolve upon this country to save the ideas embodied in the Declaration; not by
war, which saves nothing, solves nothing, is only, in the words of Thomas Mann,
‘a cowardly escape from the problems of peace,’ . . . by taking positive and
practical action to solve the problems of peace. The American government is
taking the initiative in dealing with the most urgent of these problems. On the
invitation of Washington representatives of thirty governments will meet at
Evian on Wednesday . . . . It is heartbreaking to think of the queues of
desperate human beings around our consulates in Vienna and other cities,
waiting in suspense for what happens at Evian. But the question they underline
is not simply humanitarian. It is not a question of how many more unemployed
this country can safely add to its own unemployed illions. It is a test of
civilization. How deeply do we believe in our Declaration of the elementary
rights of man? Whatever other nations do, can America live with itself if it
lets Germany get away with this policy of extermination . . . ?”[xii]
“At stake at Évian were both human lives – and the decency
and self-respect of the civilized world,” writes Walter Mondale. “If each
nation at Évian had agreed on that day to take in 17,000 Jews at once, every
Jew in the Reich could have een saved.”[xiii] Of course, with German expansion
in the years ahead, the number of Jews and non-Jews subject to murder by the
Nazis would grow to much more than 17,000 times 32 (for the 32 nations
represented at Évian).
Ervin Birnbaum was a leader on the Exodus 1947, a ship that
carried Holocaust survivors to Palestine, a Professor of Government in New
York, Haifa, and Moscow Universities, and Director of Projects at Ben Gurion’s
College of the Negev. He writes that, “the fact that the Évian Conference did
not pass a resolution condemning the German treatment of Jews was widely used
in Nazi propaganda and further emboldened Hitler in his assault on European
Jewry leaving them ultimately subject to Hitler’s ‘Final Solution to the Jewish
Question.'”[xiv] The U.S. Congress also failed to pass such a resolution.
Hitler had said when the Évian Conference had been proposed:
“I can only hope and expect that the other world, which has such deep sympathy
for these criminals [Jews], will at least be generous enough to convert this
sympathy into practical aid. We, on our part, are ready to put all these
criminals at the disposal of these countries, for all I care, even on luxury
ships.”[xv]
Following the conference, in November of 1938, Hitler
escalated his attacks on Jews with Kristallnacht or Crystal Night — a nighttime
state-organized riot, destroying and burning Jewish shops and synagogues,
during which 25,000 people were sent off to concentration camps. The name
Kristallnacht referred to the smashing of windows, put a positive spin on
rioting, and likely derived from Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels’
favorite book on propaganda, Austrian-American Edward Bernays’ Crystallizing
Public Opinion.[xvi] To his credit, Bernays declined to himself do public
relations work for the Nazis, but the Nazis did, in 1933, hire a major New York
public relations firm, Carl Byoir & Associates, to portray them in a
positive light.[xvii]
Speaking on January 30, 1939, Hitler claimed justification
for his actions from the outcome of the Évian Conference:
“It is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole democratic
world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish people, but remains
hard-hearted and obdurate when it comes to aiding them — which is surely, in
view of its attitude, an obvious duty. The arguments that are brought up as
excuses for not helping them actually speak for us Germans and Italians. For
this is what they say:
“1. ‘We,’ that is the democracies, ‘are not in a position to
take in the Jews.’ Yet in these empires there are not even ten people to the
square kilometer. While Germany, with her 135 inhabitants to the square
kilometer, is supposed to have room for them!
“2. They assure us: We cannot take them unless Germany is
prepared to allow them a certain amount of capital to bring with them as
immigrants.”[xviii]
The problem at Évian was, sadly, not ignorance of the Nazi
agenda, but failure to prioritize preventing it. This remained a problem
through the course of the war. It was a problem found in both politicians and
in the public at large. In 2018, the Gallup polling company looked back at and
tried to explain its own polling:
“[E]ven though nearly all Americans condemned the Nazi
regime’s terror against Jews in November 1938, that very same week, 72% of
Americans said ‘No’ when Gallup asked: ‘Should we allow a larger number of
Jewish exiles from Germany to come to the United States to live?’ Just 21% said
‘Yes.’ . . . Prejudice against Jews in the U.S. was evident in a number of ways
in the 1930s. According to historian Leonard Dinnerstein, more than 100 new anti-Semitic
organizations were founded in the U.S. between 1933 and 1941. One of the most
influential, Father Charles Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice,
spread Nazi propaganda and accused all Jews of being communists. Coughlin
broadcast anti-Jewish ideas to millions of radio listeners, asking them to
‘pledge’ with him to ‘restore America to the Americans.’ Further to the
fringes, William Dudley Pelley’s Silver Legion of America (‘Silver Shirts’)
fashioned themselves after Nazi Stormtroopers (‘brownshirts’). The German
American Bund celebrated Nazism openly, established Hitler Youth-style summer
camps in communities across the United States, and hoped to see the dawn of
fascism in America. Even if the Silver Shirts and the Bund did not represent
the mainstream, Gallup polls showed that many Americans held seemingly
prejudicial ideas about Jews. A remarkable survey conducted in April 1938 found
that more than half of Americans blamed Europe’s Jews for their own treatment
at the hands of the Nazis. This poll showed that 54% of Americans agreed that
‘the persecution of Jews in Europe has been partly their own fault,’ with 11%
believing it was ‘entirely’ their own fault. Hostility to refugees was so
ingrained that just two months after Kristallnacht, 67% of Americans opposed a
bill in the U.S. Congress intended to admit child refugees from Germany. The
bill never made it to the floor of Congress for a vote.”[xix]
Gallup might well have noted the international appeal of
fascism, which achieved political success in Spain, Italy, and Germany, but
which had prominent proponents in other countries, including France, where the
fascist movement was of particular inspiration to a group of Wall Street
plotters who in 1934 sought unsuccessfully to organize a fascist coup against
Roosevelt.[xx] In 1940, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. alerted Eleanor Roosevelt to
another such plot from New York tycoons and army officers.[xxi] In 1927,
Winston Churchill had commented on his visit to Rome: “I could not help being
charmed by Signor Mussolini’s gentle and simple bearing, and by his calm,
detached poise in spite of so many burdens and dangers.” Churchill found in
fascism the “necessary antidote to the Russian virus.”[xxii]
Five days after Crystal Night, President Franklin Roosevelt
said he was recalling the ambassador to Germany and that public opinion had
been “deeply shocked.” He did not use the word “Jews.” A reporter asked if
anywhere on earth might accept many Jews from Germany. “No,” said Roosevelt.
“The time is not ripe for that.” Another reporter asked if Roosevelt would
relax immigration restrictions for Jewish refugees. “That is not in
contemplation,” the president responded.[xxiii] Roosevelt refused to support
the child refugee bill in 1939, which would have allowed 20,000 Jews under the
age of 14 to enter the United States, and it never came out of committee.[xxiv]
Senator Robert Wagner (D., N.Y.) said, “Thousands of American families have
already expressed their willingness to take refugee children into their homes.”
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt set aside her antisemitism to support the
legislation, but her husband successfully blocked it for years. America
rejected the 1939 Wagner-Rogers bill to admit more Jewish and non-Aryan
refugees, but passed the 1940 Hennings Bill to allow unlimited numbers of
British Christian children into the United States.[xxv]
While many in the United States, as elsewhere, tried
heroically to rescue Jews from the Nazis, including by volunteering to take
them in, majority opinion was never with them. In 2015, Gallup polling looked
back at a January 1939 U.S. poll:
“The basic question Gallup asked related specifically to
refugee children: ‘It has been proposed that the government permit 10,000
refugee children from Germany to be brought into this country and taken care of
in American homes. Do you favor this plan?’ A second question asked of a
different sample was basically the same as above, but included the phrase ‘most
of them Jewish’ and ended with, ‘should the government permit these children to
come in?’ It didn’t matter much whether or not the refugee children were
identified as Jewish. A clear majority, 67% of Americans, opposed the basic
idea, and a lower 61% were opposed in response to the question that included
the phrase ‘most of them Jewish.’ . . . A separate Gallup question in June 1940
. . . asked if Americans would be willing to take care of one or more refugee
children from England and France in their home until the war was over.
Attitudes in response to this question were more mixed, but still with a slight
plurality saying they opposed — 46% against, 41% in favor.”[xxvi] Of course 46%
declining to themselves host a child from England or France is a different
thing from 67% or 61% opposing anybody hosting children from Germany.
In June 1939, the St. Louis, a German ocean liner carrying
over 900 Jewish refugees from Germany was turned away by Cuba. The ship sailed
up the Florida coast, followed by the U.S. Coast Guard, which had been
dispatched by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. to keep track of
the ship in case the U.S. government could be persuaded to allow it to dock.
The government was not persuaded, the ship returned to Europe, and over 250 of
its passengers perished in the Holocaust.[xxvii]
As the fate of the Jews worsened in Europe, openness to
accepting them into the United States did not significantly increase. One
reason was fear of enemy spies. According to Time Magazine, looking back from
2019, “After the rapid German conquest of France, pervasive concerns about American
security fostered a fearful and resentful climate of opinion; Roper Poll in
June 1940 found that only 2.7% of Americans thought the government was doing
enough to counteract a Nazi ‘Fifth Column’ operating in the U.S. German Jews
were not immune from these suspicions. Some Americans thought Jews could be
coerced into spying for Germany based on threats to their relatives in Germany;
others, including a former undersecretary of state, thought that inherent
‘Jewish greed’ might lead refugees and immigrants to work for the Nazi cause.
By mid-1941 the State Department instructed consuls to deny visas to applicants
who had relatives living in the totalitarian countries of Germany, the Soviet
Union, and Italy—and then Congress passed a bill directing consuls abroad to
refuse a visa to any alien who might endanger public safety.”[xxviii]
In fact, in June 1940, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for
Immigration Breckenridge Long circulated a memo proposing that the United
States indefinitely delay the admission of immigrants: “We can do this by
simply advising our consuls to put every obstacle in the way and to require
additional evidence and to resort to various administrative devices which would
postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of visas.” The restrictive U.S.
quotas, with millions of lives in the balance, were one thing, but 90% of the
allowed places were not filled, condemning 190,000 people to their fate.[xxix]
There were over 300,000 people on the waiting list in early 1939.[xxx]
Dick Cheney’s and Liz Cheney’s 2015 book, Exceptional: Why
the World Needs a Powerful America, is one of countless accounts of U.S.
superiority that finds the historical and moral greatness of the United States
in WWII and in contrast to the Nazis.[xxxi] Featured, as is often the case, is
the death of Anne Frank. There is no mention of the fact that Anne Frank’s
family applied for visas to the United States, jumped through numerous hoops,
found people to vouch for them, pulled strings with well-connected U.S. big-shots,
produced funds, forms, affidavits, and letters of recommendation — and it
wasn’t enough. Their visa applications were denied.[xxxii]
In July 1940, Adolf Eichmann, a major planner of the
holocaust, intended to send all Jews to Madagascar, which now belonged to
Germany, France having been occupied. The ships would need to wait only until
the British, which now meant Winston Churchill, ended their blockade. That day
never came.[xxxiii] On November 25, 1940, the French ambassador asked the U.S.
Secretary of State to consider accepting German Jewish refugees then in
France.[xxxiv] On December 21st, the Secretary of State declined.[xxxv] On
October 19, 1941, former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, in a speech on the
radio, said over 40 million children in German-invaded democracies were dying
as a result of the British blockade. He denounced it as a “holocaust.”[xxxvi]
On July 25, 1941, the British Ministry of Information
created a policy of using material on Nazi atrocities sparingly and only
regarding “indisputably innocent” victims. “Not with violent political
opponents. And not with the Jews.”[xxxvii]
By 1941, the Nazis had arrived at their decision to murder
the Jews rather than expel them to a world that wouldn’t take them or even let
them out of Europe. Time Magazine notes that “From October 1941 on, [Germany]
formally blocked the legal emigration of Jews from its territories, and it
called on allies and satellite countries to turn over their Jews. Most German
Jews who made it through the difficult security screening in the U.S. came from
neutral countries.”[xxxviii]
On July 29, 1942, Eduard Schulte, the chief executive of a
German mining company, risked his life to take knowledge of the mass murder
underway in German camps to Switzerland to get it into the hands of Gerhart
Riegner of the World Jewish Congress. For Riegner to get it to the president of
his organization, Rabbi Stephen Wise, in New York, he had to ask the U.S.
diplomats in Bern to send it. The U.S. State Department buried the report,
sharing it with neither Wise nor President Roosevelt. After a month’s delay,
Wise received the report through the British government. He announced that
Germany had killed 2 million Jews and was at work killing the rest. The New
York Times put that story on page 10.[xxxix]
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS, a forerunner of the
CIA) had its own sources on the genocide in progress, as well as having been in
possession of Schulte’s report. An official word from the State Department or
the OSS might have moved the story to page 1, but neither said a word. Allen
Dulles of the OSS — future director of the CIA — met Schulte in Zurich in the
spring of 1943 but was interested in learning about the Nazis, not their
victims. When German foreign service official Fritz Kolbe risked his life
repeatedly to bring Dulles information on Nazi crimes, Dulles repeatedly
ignored it. In April 1944, Kolbe alerted Dulles that Hungary’s Jews were about
to be rounded up and sent to death camps. Dulles’ report on that meeting ended
up on Roosevelt’s desk but made no mention of Hungary’s Jews or of the
proposals urged by Schulte and others to bomb the rail lines to the camps or
the camps themselves.[xl]
The U.S. military bombed other targets so close to Auschwitz
that the prisoners saw the planes pass over, and erroneously imagined they were
about to be bombed. Hoping to stop the work of the death camps at the cost of
their own lives, prisoners cheered for bombs that never came. The U.S. military
never took any serious action against the construction and operation of the
camps or in support of their expected victims. Former U.S. Senator and
presidential candidate George McGovern, who was a B-24 pilot during the war,
and who flew missions in the vicinity of Auschwitz, testified that it would
have been easy to add the camp and the rail lines to target lists.[xli]
Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of the War Resisters League,
was very concerned in 1942 by stories of Nazi plans, no longer focused on
expelling Jews but turning toward plans to murder them. Hughan believed that
such a development appeared “natural, from their pathological point of view,”
and that it might really be acted upon if World War II continued. “It seems
that the only way to save thousands and perhaps millions of European Jews from
destruction,” she wrote, “would be for our government to broadcast the promise”
of an “armistice on condition that the European minorities are not molested any
further. . . . It would be very terrible if six months from now we should find
that this threat has literally come to pass without our making even a gesture
to prevent it.” When her predictions were fulfilled only too well by 1943, she
wrote to the U.S. State Department and the New York Times: “two million [Jews]
have already died” and “two million more will be killed by the end of the war.”
She warned that military successes against Germany would just result in further
scapegoating of Jews. “Victory will not save them, for dead men cannot be
liberated,” she wrote.[xlii]
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden met on March 27,
1943, in Washington, D.C., with Rabbi Wise and Joseph M. Proskauer, a prominent
attorney and former New York State Supreme Court Justice who was then serving
as President of the American Jewish Committee. Wise and Proskauer proposed approaching
Hitler to evacuate the Jews. Eden dismissed the idea as “fantastically
impossible.”[xliii] But the very same day, according to the U.S. State
Department, Eden told Secretary of State Cordell Hull something different:
“Hull raised the question of the 60 or 70 thousand Jews that
are in Bulgaria and are threatened with extermination unless we could get them
out and, very urgently, pressed Eden for an answer to the problem. Eden replied
that the whole problem of the Jews in Europe is very difficult and that we
should move very cautiously about offering to take all Jews out of a country
like Bulgaria. If we do that, then the Jews of the world will be wanting us to
make similar offers in Poland and Germany. Hitler might well take us up on any
such offer and there simply are not enough ships and means of transportation in
the world to handle them.”[xliv]
Churchill agreed. “Even were we to obtain permission to
withdraw all the Jews,” he wrote in reply to one pleading letter, “transport
alone presents a problem which will be difficult of solution.” Not enough
shipping and transport? At the battle of Dunkirk, the British had evacuated
nearly 340,000 men in just nine days. The U.S. Air Force had many thousands of
new planes. During even a brief armistice, the U.S. and British could have
airlifted and transported huge numbers of refugees to safety.[xlv]
Not everyone was too busy fighting a war. Particularly from
late 1942 on, many in the United States and Britain demanded that something be
done. On March 23, 1943, the Archbishop of Canterbury pleaded with the House of
Lords to assist the Jews of Europe. So, the British government proposed to the
U.S. government another public conference at which to discuss what might be
done to evacuate Jews from neutral nations. But the British Foreign Office
feared that the Nazis might cooperate in such plans despite never being asked
to, writing: “There is a possibility that the Germans or their satellites may
change over from the policy of extermination to one of extrusion, and aim as
they did before the war at embarrassing other countries by flooding them with
alien immigrants.”[xlvi]
The concern here was not with saving lives so much as with
avoiding the embarrassment and inconvenience of saving lives.
The U.S. government just sat on the proposal until Jewish
leaders held a mass demonstration at Madison Square Garden. At that point, the
State Department made plans for the Bermuda Conference of April 19-29, 1943,
plans that ensured it would be no more than a publicity stunt. No Jewish
organizations were included, the location served to keep people out, the
conference was assigned to merely make recommendations to a committee, and
those recommendations were not to include increased immigration to the United
States or to Palestine. The Bermuda Conference, in the end, recommended that
“no approach be made to Hitler for the release of potential refugees.” There
were also some suggestions for helping refugees leave Spain, and a declaration
on the postwar repatriation of refugees.[xlvii]
According to Rafael Medoff of the David S. Wyman Institute
for Holocaust Studies, “Until the Bermuda conference, most American Jews and
most Members of Congress had accepted FDR’s ‘rescue through victory’ approach —
the claim that the only way to aid the Jews of Europe was to defeat the Nazis
on the battlefield. This long, slow strategy that included blockade and
starvation — and the delay of the D-Day invasion for years — condemned large
numbers to their fate and has disturbing parallels with the later U.S. practice
of imposing economic sanctions on whole nations for long periods of time. But
in the wake of Bermuda, there was a growing conviction that by the time the war
was won, there might be no European Jews left to save.” Public activism
increased significantly, to the point where it seemed possible that even the
U.S. Congress might act. Before it could, Roosevelt created the War Refugee
Board, which may have saved as many as 200,000 people during the last
year-and-a-half of the war.[xlviii]
While the United States was failing to rescue most of the
Jews of Europe, Britain was refusing to allow larger numbers of them to settle
in Palestine. Given all the injustice and violence generated by the eventual
creation of Israel, and the fact that a major concern of the British was Arab
protests, the policy should not be simply condemned. But it was condemned by
Jewish groups during World War II, and there is no question that the promise of
a land in Palestine, combined with its denial, and combined with the failure of
the world’s governments to follow through on numerous other possible
destinations for refugees, created great suffering.
In 1942, a small ship called the Struma sailed from a
Romanian port on the Black Sea with 769 refugees trying to reach Palestine.
After reaching Istanbul, the ship was in no shape to go on. But Turkey refused
to admit the refugees unless Britain would promise that they could enter
Palestine. Britain refused. Turkey towed the ship out to sea, where it broke
apart. There was one survivor.[xlix]
Opposition to mass immigration into Palestine came not only
from the people who lived there, but also from the King of Saudi Arabia, Ibn
Saud, whose oil was important to the Allies, and who hoped to build a pipeline
to the Mediterranean. The Saudi King preferred Sidon, Lebanon, to Haifa,
Palestine, as an end-point for the desired pipeline.[l] In 1944, his opposition
to Jewish immigration to Palestine was “well known” according to U.S. Secretary
of State Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. who on December 13, 1944, warned
President Roosevelt that pro-Zionist statements could have “a very definite
bearing upon the future of the immensely valuable American oil concession in
Saudi Arabia.”[li]
Detractors of Franklin Roosevelt blame him for not doing
more, arguing that he could have seen to it that Jews found safe haven in Cuba
or the Virgin Islands or Santo Domingo or Alaska, or — if Jews were really
unwelcome as free citizens of the United States — then in refugee camps. Of
course, the same complaint can be lodged against the U.S. Congress. There were
425,000 German prisoners of war in the United States during the war, but only
one camp for refugees, in Oswego, N.Y., which held about 1,000 Jews.[lii] Were
Nazi soldiers 425 times more welcome than Jewish refugees? Well, perhaps in
some sense they were. Prisoners of war are temporary and isolated. Here’s what
Gallup says of its polling results, even after the war, even after widespread
awareness of the horrors that would become the top retroactive justification of
the war in decades to follow:
“After the war ended, Gallup asked several questions about
the very large number of Jewish and other European refugees who were situated
in the ravaged postwar Europe and seeking a home. Gallup found net opposition
in response to each of the three ways the questions were worded. The least
opposition was in response to a June 1946 question asking Americans if they
approved or disapproved of ‘a plan to require each nation to take in a given
number of Jewish and other European refugees, based upon the size and
population of each nation.’ . . . The responses were 40% in favor, 49% opposed.
. . . In August, a separate question invoked the name of President Harry
Truman, saying that the president planned to ask Congress to allow more Jewish
and other European refugees to come to the U.S. to live than are allowed under
the current law. This idea did not sit well at all with the public, some 72% of
whom said that they disapproved. A 1947 question localized the issue to the
state level, stating, ‘The Governor of Minnesota has said that the Middlewest
could take several thousands of displaced (homeless) persons from refugee camps
in Europe,’ and asking the respondents if they would approve or disapprove of
their own state taking about 10,000 of these ‘displaced persons from Europe.’ A
majority, 57%, said no — 24% yes, with the rest evincing uncertainty.”[liii]
For those interested in more information on U.S. immigration
policy and the Holocaust, there’s a section on the website of the U.S.
Holocaust Museum.[liv]
In the end, those left alive in the concentration camps were
liberated — though in many cases not very quickly, not as anything resembling a
top priority. Some prisoners were kept in horrible concentration camps at least
up through September of 1946. General George Patton urged that nobody should
“believe that the Displaced person is a human being, which he is not, and this
applies particularly to the Jews who are lower than animals.” President Harry
Truman admitted at that time that “we apparently treat the Jews the same way as
the Nazis did, with the sole exception that we do not kill them.”[lv]
Of course, even were that not an exaggeration, not killing
people is a very important exception. The United States had fascist tendencies
but did not succumb to them as Germany did. But neither was there any all-out
capital-R Resistance crusade to save those threatened by fascism — not on the
part of the U.S. government, not on the part of the U.S. mainstream. Many made
heroic efforts, with limited success, but they were in a minority. A Dr. Seuss
cartoon showed a woman reading her children a story called “Adolf the Wolf.”
The caption was: “. . . and the wolf chewed up the children and spit out their
bones . . . But those were foreign children and it really didn’t matter.”[lvi]
In July 2018, with anti-immigrant sentiments less acceptable
but still raging, the singer Billy Joel told the New York Times, “My father’s
family left Germany in ’38, after Kristallnacht, but they couldn’t get into the
United States. There was a quota on European Jews, and if you couldn’t get in
here, you were shipped back, then you were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz —
which is what happened to my father’s family. They were all killed at
Auschwitz, except my father and his parents. So this anti-immigration stuff
strikes a very dark tone with me.”[lvii]
Was WWII a just war by accident because it ended before all
the Jews had been killed? That’s a tough case to make, since efforts could have
been made, in combination with the war or instead of it, to save millions who
died. In fact, it wouldn’t have taken much effort, just a willingness to say
“welcome” or, perhaps to say something like this:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your
teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door!”
Perhaps WWII was a just war; but we’ll have to find another
reason why. The popular notion of a war to save Jews is fiction. The variation
in which the war is justified simply because the enemy killed Jews is weak if
the war was not aimed at stopping that evil. The political or propagandistic
nature of popular myths and misconceptions can be easily illustrated by a
couple of facts. First, the victims of the Nazi concentration camps and other
deliberate murder campaigns included at least as many non-Jews as Jews; these
other victims were targeted for other reasons, yet are sometimes not even
mentioned or considered.[lviii] Second, Hitler’s war efforts were aimed at
killing and did kill many more people than the camps killed. In fact, numerous
nations in both the European and Pacific wars killed many more people than were
killed in the camps, and the war as a whole killed several times the number
killed in the camps, making the war an odd cure for the genocide disease.[lix]
[i] In fact, the British Ministry of Propaganda made a
decision to avoid mentioning Jews when discussing victims of the Nazis. See
Walter Laqueuer, The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth about Hitler’s
“Final Solution.” Boston: Little, Brown, 1980, p. 91. Cited by Nicholson Baker,
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of the End of Civilization. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2008, p. 368.
[ii] Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous
With Destiny. Boston, Little, Brown, 1990, p. 296. Cited by Nicholson Baker,
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of the End of Civilization. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2008, p. 9.
[iii] Winston Churchill, “Zionism versus Bolshevism,”
Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920. Cited by Nicholson Baker, Human
Smoke: The Beginnings of the End of Civilization. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2008, p. 6.
[iv] Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume Two – The National
Socialist Movement, Chapter IV: Personality and the Conception of the Folkish
State, http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv2ch04.html
[v] Harry Laughlin testified in 1920 to the House
Committee on Immigration and Naturalization in the United States Congress that
the immigration of Jews and Italians was damaging the genetic structure of the
race. “Our failure to sort immigrants on the basis of natural worth is a very
serious national menace,” Laughlin warned. Committee Chairman Albert Johnson
appointed Laughlin to be the committee’s Expert Eugenics Agent. Laughlin supported
the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924, which banned immigration from Asia
and curtailed immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe. This law created
quotas based on the 1890 U.S. population. Henceforth, immigrants could not just
show up at Ellis Island but would have to obtain visas at U.S. consulates
abroad. See Rachel Gur-Arie, The Embryo Project Encyclopedia, “Harry Hamilton
Laughlin (1880-1943),” December 19, 2014,
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/harry-hamilton-laughlin-1880-1943 Also see Andrew
J. Skerritt, Tallahassee Democrat, “‘Irresistible Tide’ takes unflinching look
at America’s immigration policy | Book Review,” August 1, 2020,
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/2020/08/01/irresistible-tide-takes-unflinching-look-americas-immigration-policy/5550977002
This story is covered in the PBS film “American Experience: The Eugenics
Crusade,” October 16, 2018,
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eugenics-crusade For how this
influenced the Nazis, see Chapter 4 of this book.
[vi] United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust
Encyclopedia, “Immigration to the United States, 1933-41,”
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/immigration-to-the-united-states-1933-41
[vii] Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United
States (Harper Perennial, 1995), p 400. Cited by David Swanson, War Is A Lie:
Second Edition (Charlottesville: Just World Books, 2016), p. 32.
[viii] United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust
Encyclopedia, “Evian Conference Fails to Aid Refugees,” https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/evian-conference-fails-to-aid-refugees
[ix] Holocaust Educational Trust, 70 Voices: Victims,
Perpetrators, and Bystanders, “As We Have No Racial Problem,” January 27, 2015,
http://www.70voices.org.uk/content/day55
[x] Lauren Levy, Jewish Virtual Library, a Project of
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, “Dominican Republic Provides Sosua as
a Haven for Jewish Refugees,”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/dominican-republic-as-haven-for-jewish-refugees
See also Jason Margolis, The World, “The Dominican Republic took in Jewish
refugees fleeing Hitler while 31 nations looked away,” November 9, 2018,
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-11-09/dominican-republic-took-jewish-refugees-fleeing-hitler-while-31-nations-looked
[xi] Dennis Ross Laffer, University of South Florida,
Scholar Commons, Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Graduate School, “Jewish
Trail of Tears II: Children Refugee Bills of 1939 and 1940,” March 2018,
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8383&context=etd
[xii] Anne O’Hare McCormick, The New York Times, “The
Refugee Question as a Test of Civilization Nation of Free Choice Plight of the
Refugee A Way to Rebuke the Reich,” July 4, 1938,
https://www.nytimes.com/1938/07/04/archives/europe-the-refugee-question-as-a-test-of-civilization-nation-of.html
[xiii] Learning from History, Online Module: The
Holocaust and Fundamental Rights, Doc. 11: Comments on the Evian Conference,
http://learning-from-history.de/Online-Lernen/content/13338 See whole online
course on the Évian conference:
http://learning-from-history.de/Online-Lernen/content/13318
[xiv] Ervin Birnbaum, Crethi Plethi, “Evian: The Most
Fateful Conference of All Times in Jewish History,”
http://www.crethiplethi.com/evian-the-most-fateful-conference-of-all-times-in-jewish-history/the-holocaust/2013
[xv] Ervin Birnbaum, “Evian: The Most Fateful Conference
of All Times in Jewish History,” Part II,
http://www.acpr.org.il/nativ/0902-birnbaum-E2.pdf
[xvi] Crystalizing Public Opinion is available online at
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61364/61364-h/61364-h.htm Regarding Goebbels’
use of Bernays’ work, see Richard Gunderman, The Conversation, “The
manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public
relations,” July 9, 2015,
https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393
[xvii] Ronn Torossian, Observer, “Hitler’s Nazi Germany
Used an American PR Agency,” December 22, 2014, https://observer.com/2014/12/hitlers-nazi-germany-used-an-american-pr-agency
[xviii] Zionism and Israel – Encyclopedic Dictionary,
“Evian Conference,” http://www.zionism-israel.com/dic/Evian_conference.htm
[xix] Daniel Greene and Frank Newport, Gallup Polling,
“American Public Opinion and the Holocaust,” April 23, 2018,
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/232949/american-public-opinion-holocaust.aspx
[xx] Jules Archer, The Plot to Seize the Whitehouse: The
Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR (Skyhorse Publishing,
2007).
[xxi] Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Man of the World: My Life
on Five Continents (New York: Crown Publishers, 1959), p. 264. Cited by David
Talbot, The Devil’s Chess Board: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of
America’s Secret Government, (New York: HarperCollins, 2015), p. 25.
[xxii] Winston Churchill, Complete Speeches, vol. 4, pp.
4125-26.
[xxiii] Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Public Papers and
Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, (New York: Russell & Russell,
1938-1950) vol. 7, pp. 597-98. Cited by Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke: The
Beginnings of the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, p.
101.
[xxiv] David S. Wyman, Paper Walls: America and the Refugee
Crisis, 1938-1941 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968), p. 97.
Cited by Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of the End of
Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, p. 116.
[xxv] Dennis Ross Laffer, University of South Florida,
Scholar Commons, Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Graduate School, “Jewish
Trail of Tears II: Children Refugee Bills of 1939 and 1940,” March 2018,
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8383&context=etd
[xxvi] Frank Newport, Gallup Polling, “Historical Review:
Americans’ Views on Refugees Coming to U.S.,” November 19, 2015,
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/186716/historical-review-americans-views-refugees-coming.aspx
[xxvii] David Talbot, The Devil’s Chess Board: Allen
Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, (New York:
HarperCollins, 2015), pp. 42-46.
[xxviii] Richard Breitman, Time, “The Troubling History
of How America’s ‘Public Charge’ Immigration Rule Blocked Jews Fleeing Nazi
Germany,” October 29, 2019,
https://time.com/5712367/wwii-german-immigration-public-charge
[xxix] David Talbot, The Devil’s Chess Board: Allen
Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, (New York:
HarperCollins, 2015), p. 45.
[xxx] Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, “Anne Frank and her
family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S.,” November 24, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/24/anne-frank-and-her-family-were-also-denied-entry-as-refugees-to-the-u-s/?utm_term=.f483423866ac
[xxxi] Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the
World Needs a Powerful America (Threshold Editions, 2016).
[xxxii] Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, “Anne Frank and her
family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S.,” November 24, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/24/anne-frank-and-her-family-were-also-denied-entry-as-refugees-to-the-u-s/?utm_term=.f483423866ac
[xxxiii] Christopher Browning, The Path to Genocide (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 18-19. Cited by Nicholson Baker,
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of the End of Civilization. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2008, p. 233.
[xxxiv] Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of
the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, p. 257.
[xxxv] Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of
the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, pp. 267-268.
[xxxvi] Chicago Tribune, “’Feed Starving War Children,’
Hoover Pleads,” October 20, 1941. Cited by Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke: The
Beginnings of the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, p.
411.
[xxxvii] Walter Laqueuer, The Terrible Secret:
Suppression of the Truth about Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Boston: Little,
Brown, 1980, p. 91. Cited by Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of
the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, p. 368.
[xxxviii] Richard Breitman, Time, “The Troubling History
of How America’s ‘Public Charge’ Immigration Rule Blocked Jews Fleeing Nazi
Germany,” October 29, 2019, https://time.com/5712367/wwii-german-immigration-public-charge
[xxxix] David Talbot, The Devil’s Chess Board: Allen
Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, (New York:
HarperCollins, 2015), pp. 50-52. Also, the New York Times reported extensively
on this topic 40 years later: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, “American Jews and the
Holocaust,” New York Times, April 18, 1982,
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/18/magazine/american-jews-and-the-holocaust.html
[xl] David Talbot, The Devil’s Chess Board: Allen Dulles,
the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, (New York: HarperCollins,
2015), pp. 52-55.
[xli] Mark Horowitz, Commentary Magazine, “Alternate
History: Review of ‘The Jews Should Keep Quiet’ by Rafael Medoff,” June 2020,
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/mark-horowitz/fdr-jewish-leadership-and-holocaust
[xlii] Lawrence Wittner, Rebels Against War: The American
Peace Movement 1933-1983, (Temple University Press: Revised Edition, 1984).
[xliii] Lucy S. Dawidowicz, “American Jews and the
Holocaust,” New York Times, April 18, 1982,
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/18/magazine/american-jews-and-the-holocaust.html
[xliv] U.S. Department of State, Office of the
Historian, “Memorandum of Conversation,
by Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to President Roosevelt 55,” March
27, 1943, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1943v03/d23
[xlv] War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar
and Peace Writing, edited by Lawrence Rosendwald (Library of America, 2016).
[xlvi] PBS American Experience: “The Bermuda Conference,”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/holocaust-bermuda
[xlvii] PBS American Experience: “The Bermuda
Conference,”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/holocaust-bermuda
[xlviii] Dr. Rafael Medoff, The David S. Wyman Institute
for Holocaust Studies, “The Allies’ Refugee Conference–A ‘Cruel Mockery’,”
April 2003,
http://new.wymaninstitute.org/2003/04/the-allies-refugee-conference-a-cruel-mockery
[xlix] Lucy S. Dawidowicz, “American Jews and the
Holocaust,” New York Times, April 18, 1982,
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/18/magazine/american-jews-and-the-holocaust.html
[l] Charlotte Dennett, The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost
Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
(Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020), p. 16.
[li] Foreign Relations of the United States, 1944, volume
V, Palestine, ed. E.R. Perkins, S.E. Gleason, J.G. Reid, et al. (Washington,
DC: US Government Printing Office, 1965), document 705. Cited by Charlotte
Dennett, The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the
Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020), p.
23 footnote.
[lii] Mark Horowitz, Commentary Magazine, “Alternate
History: Review of ‘The Jews Should Keep Quiet’ by Rafael Medoff,” June 2020,
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/mark-horowitz/fdr-jewish-leadership-and-holocaust
[liii] Frank Newport, Gallup Polling, “Historical Review:
Americans’ Views on Refugees Coming to U.S.,” November 19, 2015,
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/186716/historical-review-americans-views-refugees-coming.aspx
[liv] United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust
Encyclopedia, “Immigration to the United States, 1933-41,” https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/immigration-to-the-united-states-1933-41
[lv] Jacques R. Pauwels, The Myth of the Good War:
America in the Second World War (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. 2015, 2002)
p. 36.
[lvi] Independent Lens, “The Political Dr. Seuss,”
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/film.html
[lvii] Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, “Billy Joel’s Got
a Good Job and Hits in His Head,” July 25, 2018,
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/arts/music/billy-joel-100-shows-interview.html
[lviii] Wikipedia, “World War II Casualties,”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
[lix] Wikipedia, “World War II Casualties,”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
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