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How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews? In contrast to recent writers who place the blame on anti-Semitism in American society at large and within the Roosevelt administration in particular, Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut seek the answer in a detailed analysis of American political realities and bureaucratic processes. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, the authors describe and analyze American immigration policy as well as rescue and relief efforts directed toward European Jewry between 1933 and 1945. They contend that U.S. policy was the product of preexisting restrictive immigration laws; an entrenched State Department bureaucracy committed to a narrow defense of American interests; public opposition to any increase in immigration; and the reluctance of Franklin D. Roosevelt to accept the political risks of humanitarian measures to benefit the European Jews. The authors find that the bureaucrats who made and implemented refugee policy were motivated by institutional priorities and reluctance to take risks, rather than by moral or humanitarian concerns.
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Kimberley T Walker
reviewed American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945 on May 01, 2012
American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945
A dense and informative survey of attitudes toward Jews, and Jewish responses to life in Germany during the Weimar years. Definitely worth reading if you have an interest in anti-semitism, Jewish life between the World Wars or German culture in general. As I said, it's very informative, but not big on narrative; it reads much more as an academic study (which is what it is, I suppose). I appreciated how Niewyk ended each chapter with some perspective to help clarify the divergent ideas and attitudes described therein.
One odd feature: late in the book, the chapter on the right-wing "Jewish Chauvinists" evinces a confusing change in voice. The judgmental descriptions of other Jewish factions is clearly from the perspective, not of the author, but of the "Naumannite." It was an off-putting interlude.
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