Those “20,000 charming children would all too soon grow up into 20,000 ugly adults.”
By 1944, a majority of Americans were willing to take in European Jewish refugees.
At the urging of German Jewish leaders.
Other U.S. presidents protested anti-Semitism abroad.
The “M Project.”
David S. Wyman, 1928-2018.
Religion and the crisis of the democratic state of mind.
He brought the Holocaust to public attention.
In declining to restore the rights of North African Jews in the wake of their 1942 invasion, did the Allies act with “deceit and duplicity,” or were their reasons defensible?
Did they provide a conduit for Hitler’s propaganda?
Hitler, not FDR, caused the Holocaust. American isolationism, not refugee policy, helped him do it.
Echoes of FDR?
And why didn’t it?