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To What Extent Were Americans Complicit in Hitler’s Plans?

To What Extent Were Americans Complicit in Hitler’s Plans?. What do you think?. Anti-Semitism in America 1880-1935. Influx between 1880-1920 Immigration Quotas KKK- Anti-semitism Anger during Depression How does the cartoon from 1896 show a history of anti-semitism in the U.S.?.

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To What Extent Were Americans Complicit in Hitler’s Plans?

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  1. To What Extent Were Americans Complicit in Hitler’s Plans? What do you think?

  2. Anti-Semitism in America 1880-1935 • Influx between 1880-1920 • Immigration Quotas • KKK-Anti-semitism • Anger during Depression • How does the cartoon from 1896 show a history ofanti-semitism in the U.S.?

  3. Immigration Laws • 1924-2% of immigrants already here • Meant to limit immigrants from Southern & Eastern Europe • Great Depression further justified restrictive immigration laws • 200,000 Jewish refugees were permitted between 1933 and 1942.

  4. 1936 Olympics • Hitler’s Agenda • U.S. Olympic Committee • Milton Green & Norman Cahners: boycott • Jesse Owens- not credited by Hitler but neither celebrated by FDR either • Notification of Mtg for a boycott

  5. Evian Conference 1938 • Objective: Discuss increasing numbers of Jewish Refugees • Jews in Austria & Germany hopeful • Outcome: Only Dominican Republic willing to accept thousands • Hitler’s Response: • “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.”

  6. SS St Louis • Departed Germany for Cuba May 1939 • Docked in Havana • Visas not accepted • Negotiations w/U.S.failed • Returned to Europe

  7. Wagner-Rogers Bill • Would have admitted 20,000 children under 14 • Hearings: 1400 adoption offers; 42 patriotic societies opposed • Failed by 90% • American Jewish organiz. did not contest out of fear

  8. Roosevelt’s Denunciations • Denounced deportations of Jews from Vichy France • Oct 1942: Threatens Hitler w/ Prosecution for war Crimes • 11 allies condemn Nazi “extermination” Of Jews Dec. 1942

  9. Refugee Board • Estab. 1944 • Funded by FDR Administ., American Jewish Congress and Joint Congress of Jews • Raoul Wallenberg-Swedish diplomat • Headed by John Pehle (see letter about Auschwitz)

  10. Bombing Auschwitz • From the film: What happened at Auschwitz? • Read the letter. What reasons were given for not bombing Auschwitz?

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