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GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts)
11. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 10:08 AM
Jun 2018

"Though at least 110,000 Jewish refugees escaped to the United States from Nazi-occupied territory between 1933 and 1941, hundreds of thousands more applied to immigrate and were unsuccessful."

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008297

That any were refused is disgusting, and although it is a fair question as to whether 110,000 would qualify as "many", I am inclined to accept the USHMM's scholarship on the subject.

Before WWII, US popular opinion was very much against further Jewish immigration, and politicians were reluctant to challenge this. Breckinridge Long in particular deserves a special place in the abyss.

One would think that we would learn from history.





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