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America and the Holocaust. Is This American History?. 1919 Lodge sinks League of Nations http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/lodge_leagueofnations.htm American Isolationism ensues 1929 Immigration Quotas set 1933 Hitler rises to power in Germany.
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Is This American History? • 1919 Lodge sinks League of Nations • http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/lodge_leagueofnations.htm • American Isolationism ensues • 1929 Immigration Quotas set • 1933 Hitler rises to power in Germany
March 27, 1933 -- Mass anti-Nazi rally held in Madison Square Garden, New York. • September, 1935 -- Nazis enact the Nuremberg Laws.
1936…America participates in the Olympics. • July 6, 1938…America and 31 other countries participate in the Evian Conference to deal with refugee crisis • http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/evian.html • November 9-10, 1938…Kristallnacht. Night of Broken Glass.
Wagner Rogers Bill • Early 1939. Wagner Rogers Bill proposes American Kindertransport. Admitting 20,000 children above quota. • Gallup Poll: 77% of mothers opposed!
SS St. Louis • June, 1939: SS St. Louis refused entry into Cuba and US. • Forced to return, some 750 passengers perish in the Holocaust • http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/stlouis.html
June, 1941 -- New rules in the U.S. cut refugee immigration to about 25% of the relevant quotas. • October 11 -- "New York Times" story reports on massacres of thousands of Jews in Galicia. • July 21, 1942 -- Twenty thousand people gather in New York's Madison Square Garden to protest the Nazi atrocities.
August 8, 1942 -- Gerhart Riegner informs U.S. consulate in Geneva about a Nazi plan to murder the Jews of Europe. • December 8 -- Jewish leaders meet with President Roosevelt and hand him a 20-page summary of the Holocaust.
April 19th, 1943– Bermuda Conference convened to deal with refugee crisis and possibility of rescue. • January 22, 1944 -- President Roosevelt establishes the War Refugee Board. • August -- Nine hundred eighty-two refugees, most of them Jewish, arrive at Fort Ontario in upstate New York. • August 14, 1944 -- War Department writes that bombing Auschwitz would divert air power from “decisive operations elsewhere.”
Beyond Belief by Deborah Lipstadt • War Atrocity Stories • American Press and the incredulity of American post war response • What does this say about the press today?