No, we didn't know any of this and most people still don't. But over the years,
I've read bits and pieces about it and I've read things that David Swanson has
written in the past. If and when this new book of his gets to Bookshare, I
really want to read it. I'm sure that it won't get to BARD. There's a woman,
Deborah, whom Roger introduced to this list and who was on it briefly. I've
kept in touch with her and she's scanned some books in which I was interested,
over the years. I told her about this one. She's keeping an eye out and if it
doesn't appear on Bookshare straight from the publisher, she will probably scan
it. My problem is, too much to listen to and not enough time. And now that I'm
old, I keep dozing off in the afternoon while I'm listening.
Miriam
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<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: WWII was not fought to save anyone from
death camps
No surprises here. But that was not the case back during the War.
Then we were all wringing our hands for the plight of the Jews. How could I, a
boy of only ten in 1945, know that our government spoke from both sides of its
mouth? Over the years I have had the good fortune to count many Jews among my
closest friends. I can also add that I have known some very wicked Jews,
proving that they really do belong to the same Race as do I. Al Hannacraft and
Sam Israel owned Cascade Market on Aurora Avenue(US highway 99)just down the
hill from our house. We were so poor that even the Church mice snubbed us. Al
and Sam saved all the vegetables and fruit that was too ripe to sell, and gave
mother a huge bag each time she came off the bus from work.
Kind men. Family men. Generous men. And Jewish. Al and Sam stood me in good
stead down through the years when Jews image was so maligned. And they helped
me remember that people are very different despite being lumped under the same
label.
Years later I was attending our WCB state convention when some conversation
regarding the plight of the Palestinians surfaced. The man seated directly
behind me actually snarled like a mad dog, and snapped, "They aren't Human!
They deserve to be wiped off the face of the Earth". Normally I did not butt
into other folks conversations, but I was shocked. The man seated directly
behind me was Jewish. I turned around and said, "You sound just like the Nazis
during World War II". To this day he has never spoken to me. But I can safely
say that his hatred was so intense that he could never change.
Carl Jarvis
On 9/21/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: David Swanson via WarIsACrime.org <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 9:01 AM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: WWII was not fought to save anyone from death camps
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WWII was not fought to save anyone from death camps
By David Swanson, excerpted from Leaving World War II Behind
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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.
U.S. immigration policy, crafted largely by antisemitic 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.[ii]
The policy of Nazi Germany for years was to pursue the expulsion of
the Jews, not their murder. The world’s governments held public
conferences to discuss who would accept the Jews, and those
governments — for open and shamelessly antisemitic reasons — refused
to accept the Nazis’ future victims. Hitler openly trumpeted this
refusal as agreement with his bigotry and as encouragement to escalate it.
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.)
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.”[iii]
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.[iv]
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.”[v]
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. 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.”[vi]
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.
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.[vii] 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.[viii]
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 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.[ix]
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden met on March 27, 1943, in
Washington, D.C., with Rabbi Stephen 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.”[x] 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.”[xi]
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.[xii]
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.”[xiii]
The concern here was not with saving lives so much as with avoiding
the embarrassment and inconvenience of saving lives.
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.”[xiv]
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.
I tell this and related stories far more thoroughly in my new book,
Leaving World War II Behind
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NOTES:
[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] 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-ta
kes-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
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0xX1Mqw8> For how this influenced the Nazis, see Chapter 4 of Leaving
World War II Behind
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[iii] 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
[iv] 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-j
ewish-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
[v] 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
[vi] Zionism and Israel – Encyclopedic Dictionary, “Evian Conference,”
http://www.zionism-israel.com/dic/Evian_conference.htm
[vii] 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.
[viii] 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.
[ix] 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.
[x] 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-holo
caust.html
[xi] 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
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[xii] War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace
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[xiii] PBS American Experience: “The Bermuda Conference,”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/holocaust-bermuda
[xiv] Jacques R. Pauwels, The Myth of the Good War: America in the
Second World War (James Lorimer & Company Ltd. 2015, 2002) p. 36.
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. Swanson's books
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include War Is A Lie
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. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org
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. He hosts Talk Nation Radio
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. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.
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