I really need to read the book. But the fact is that we weren't the country
that defeated the Nazis. Our soldiers fought, and many were killed. We killed a
lot of German civilians by fire bombing dresdenn. But it was Russia who
defeated the German army. And it was our financiers who helped finance the
Nazis, wealthy families like the Bush family. And we brought a lot of Nazi
scientists to the US after the war to help us develop nuclear weapons. But
what I do know is that our government never cared about what happened to
Hitler's victims. The reason for entering the war was to help Great Britain,
and we were giving them armaments before our congress had voted to do so.
Whatever our country's reasons were, they were not humanitarian. Government
officials knew all about the Jews, Romani, gay people, disabled people, etc.
whom the Nazis were slaughtering. We knew about the freight trains filled with
people, moving toward concentration camps. Those railroad tracks were never
bombed. There are a number of books on Bookshare that I've read which touch on
all of this, along with numerous articles over the years. But my memory is so
bad these days, that I can't remember all of the book titles.
Miriam
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Granting that this is true, are you saying that we should have just left Hitler
alone?
Andy
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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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https://davidswanson.org/wwii-was-not-fought-to-save-anyone-from-death-camps/
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-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 ;
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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-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
[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-holocaust.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 Writing,
edited by Lawrence Rosendwald (Library of America, 2016).
[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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. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org
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and WarIsACrime.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. Swanson was
awarded the 2018 Peace Prize
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by the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation. Longer bio and photos and videos here
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