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America and the Holocaust A Documentary History

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01.05.2022

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Jewish Publication Society

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352

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Englisch

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978-0-8276-1518-2

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Produktdetails

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.05.2022

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Jewish Publication Society

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352

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27,6/21,4/2,1 cm

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992 g

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Englisch

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978-0-8276-1518-2

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  • Produktbild: America and the Holocaust
  • Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    1. Responses to Hitler’s Rise
    America Hopes for a Restrained Hitler
                Document 1.1 “Just in Case He Goosesteps Too Much!”
    Dorothy Thompson Reports from Germany
                Document 1.2 “Starve, Humiliate, Degrade the Jew; In Every Walk, Trade Profession, Nazi Pressure in Law and Slogan”
    The New York Times Interviews Hitler
                Document 1.3 “Hitler Seeks Jobs for All Germans”
    Boycotting German Goods
                Document 1.4 “No Trading with Germany”
    Hitler on Trial at Madison Square Garden
                Document 1.5 Hitler on Trial-Resolution and Verdict
    Further Reading
    2. The American Mood
    Antisemitism in Congress
                Document 2.1 Congressman John Rankin’s Remarks before the House
    “Racial Science” Spreads
                Document 2.2 The Passing of the Great Race
    Father Coughlin and Hate Radio
                Document 2.3 Father Coughlin’s Radio Address Concerning Kristallnacht
    Antisemitic Attitudes among the Public
                Document 2.4 Polls by Roper (1938) and Opinion Research (1940) on Antisemitic Attitudes
    Antisemitism in the State Department
                Document 2.5 Antisemitic Remarks by State Department Officials
    Further Reading
    3. Doing Business with Hitler
    U.S. Participation in the Nazi Olympics
                Document 3.1 “To the Sport-Loving Public of the United States”
    Apologizing to Hitler
                Document 3.2 Secretary of State Apologizes to Hitler
    A Cabinet Member Participates in a Pro-Nazi Rally
                Document 3.3 “‘Heil Hitler’ Resounds as Steuben Society Denounces Boycott, Acclaims New Germany”
    Censoring Criticism of Hitler
                Document 3.4 FDR Objects to Secretary of the Interior’s Criticism of Hitler
    FDR Urges “Quarantining” of Aggressor Nations
                Document 3.5 “FDR’s Quarantine Speech”
    Further Reading
    4. The Universities and the Nazis
    Nazi Ambassador Speaks at Columbia
                Document 4.1 “Luther Calls Hitler Critics ‘Old-Timers’”
    Nazi Official Visits Harvard
                Document 4.2 “Render unto Caesar”
    A Nazi University Celebrates
                Document 4.3 “Heidelberg”
    American Students in Nazi Germany
                Document 4.4 “Germany Discussed by One Who Spent Junior Year There”
    Abandoning Refugee Scholars
                Document 4.5 Hamilton College President’s Letter Regarding Hiring Refugee Scholars
    Further Reading
    5. U.S. Immigration Policy
    Immigration Statistics
                Document 5.1 “Annual Quotas and Quota Immigrants Admitted, Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1925 to 1944, by Countries”
    When Anne Frank Tried to Come to America
                Document 5.2 Anne Frank’s Father Asks American Industrialist to Help the Frank Family Immigrate
    “Postpone and Postpone and Postpone” 
                Document 5.3 The Assistant Secretary of State on Ways to Obstruct Immigration
    The “Close Relatives” Rule
                Document 5.4 U.S. Immigration Regulation Regarding Applicants Leaving “Close Relatives” Behind
    Albert Einstein’s Plea to the First Lady
                Document 5.5 Albert Einstein Asks the First Lady to Oppose New Immigration Restrictions
    Further Reading
    6. Searching for a Haven
    James McDonald Resigns in Protest
                Document 6.1 Resignation of the High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany
    Eyewitness to Horror
                Document 6.2 “Jews Humiliated by Vienna Crowds”
    The Evian Conference
                Document 6.3 Refugee Problem Announcement in Preparation for the Evian Conference
    Suicide of a Jewish Refugee
                Document 6.4 “Ends Life to Escape Return to Germany”
    FDR Responds to Kristallnacht
                Document 6.5 President Roosevelt’s Statement Concerning the Kristallnacht Pogrom
    Further Reading
    7. The Doomed Journey of the St. Louis
    Offer of Haven in the Virgin Islands
                Document 7.1 “Virgin Islands Too Offer Haven for Oppressed Jews”
    A Child Appeals to the First Lady
                Document 7.2 Eleven-Year-Old Beseeches the First Lady to Accept the Refugees
    St. Louis Passengers Appeal to the White House
                Document 7.3 St. Louis Captain’s Log Record of Passengers’ Telegram to the White House
    Secretaries of State and Treasury Discuss the St. Louis
                Document 7.4 Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury Confer on the St. Louis
    “The Saddest Ship Afloat” 
                Document 7.5 “Refugee Ship”
    Further Reading
    8. The Wagner-Rogers Bill to Save Children
    The Wagner-Rogers Bill
                Document 8.1 Text of the Wagner-Rogers Bill (H.R.J. Res. 165 and 168)
    “20,000 Ugly Adults” 
                Document 8.2 Remark by FDR’s Cousin against Wagner-Rogers
    President Roosevelt’s Position
                Document 8.3 FDR’s “File No Action” Note on Wagner-Rogers
    Helen Hayes Testifies for Admitting Children
                Document 8.4 “First Lady of the American Theater” Testifies for Admitting German Refugee Children
    Agnes Waters Testifies against Admitting Children
                Document 8.5 “Mother Witness” Testifies against Admitting German Refugee Children
    Further Reading
    9. American Rescuers
    The State Department Rebuffs Varian Fry
                Document 9.1 “You Should Inform Dr. Bohn and Mr. Fry”
    The Krauses Rescue Fifty Children from Germany and Austria
                Document 9.2 Erika Tamar’s Passport to America
    The Sharps’ Rescue Mission in Czechoslovakia
                Document 9.3 Martha Sharp’s Recollections about Rescue Work in Czechoslovakia
    Lois Gunden Shelters Children in Vichy France
                Document 9.4 Recollections of Hiding French Jewish Children from the Nazis
    Roddie Edmonds Shields Jewish GIs from the Nazis
                Document 9.5 Testimony Regarding Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds’s Bravery
    Further Reading
    10. Genocide Confirmed
    The Bund Report
                Document 10.1 “Report of the Bund Regarding the Persecution of the Jews-May 1942”
    The Riegner Telegram
                Document 10.2 Gerhart Riegner’s Telegram Revealing the Nazis’ Annihilation Plan
    The Sternbuch Telegram
                Document 10.3 The Sternbuch Telegram Revealing Additional Details of the Mass Murder
    The Allies’ Declaration
                Document 10.4 “German Policy of Extermination of the Jewish Race”
    Jan Karski Reports to President Roosevelt
                Document 10.5 A Polish Underground Courier’s 1943 Conversation with President Roosevelt
    Further Reading
    11. All the News the Media Could Fit
    The New York Times on Babi Yar
                Document 11.1 Two Reporters’ Contrasting Accounts of the Babi Yar Massacre and Why
    The Media and the Allies’ Declaration
                Document 11.2 U.S. News Media’s Coverage of the Allies’ Declaration on the Mass Murder
    The Media and the Deportations from Hungary
                Document 11.3 “Jews in Hungary Fear Annihilation”
    The Nation Urges Rescue
                Document 11.4 “While the Jews Die”
    I. F. Stone Investigates
                Document 11.5 “Justice Department Immigration Figures Knock Long Story into Cocked Hat”
    Further Reading
    12. American Christian Responses
    Rabbi Wise Pleads with Christian Clergy
                Document 12.1 Meeting of Rabbi Wise and Christian Clergy, 1933
    The U.S. Catholic Press on Kristallnacht
                Document 12.2 “Nazi Atrocities and the American War Fever: Are We Preparing for War with Germany?”
    Christian Century Doubts the Holocaust
                Document 12.3 “Horror Stories from Poland,” “From Rabbi Wise,” “From the Editors”
    Jewish and Christian Students Speak Out
                Document 12.4 “On Implementing Brotherhood”
    A Baptist Farmer’s Gesture
                Document 12.5 “Farmer Rogers, His Brother’s Keeper”
    Further Reading
    13. American Jewish Responses
    The President and the Rabbi
                Document 13.1 Rabbi Wise’s Student Questions His Relationship with FDR
    Jewish Leaders Appeal to the President
                Document 13.2 “Report on the Visit to the President”
    Jewish Congressmen Meet with the President
                Document 13.3 “Minutes of Dinner Meeting on Wednesday Evening March 22nd at the Statler Hotel”
    “If They Were Slaughtering Horses” 
                Document 13.4 “Confidential Memorandum of Rabbi Meyer Berlin”
    Jewish Leaders Discuss Strategy
                Document 13.5 Meeting of Jewish Leaders Concerning Rescue Advocacy
    Further Reading
    14. The Bermuda Conference
    A Jewish Proposal for Bermuda
                Document 14.1 “The Following Proposals Are Respectfully Submitted”
    Announcement at the End of the Conference
                Document 14.2 “Report of the Bermuda Meeting on the Refugee Problem”
    Congressman Emanuel Celler’s Response
                Document 14.3 Response to Bermuda
    A Jewish Leader’s Response
                Document 14.4 “The Mockery at Bermuda”
    “An Appeal to the Conscience of the World” 
                Document 14.5 “I am taking the liberty of addressing to you, Sirs, these my last words”
    Further Reading
    15. Obstacles to Rescue
    Congressional Sympathy
                Document 15.1 Text of the Barkley Resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 9)
    A Cartoonist Challenges the State Department
                Document 15.2 “Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8B, for Consideration”
    FDR on “Rescue through Victory” 
                Document 15.3 “Speech of the Honorable A. A. Berle Jr.”
    The Allies’ Declaration in Moscow
                Document 15.4 “Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security”
    Empty Ships for Refugees
                Document 15.5 “Shipping for Refugees”
    Further Reading
    16. The Campaign for Rescue
    The Bergson Group’s “Race against Death” 
                Document 16.1 “This Is a Race against Death”
    The Rabbis’ Petition to FDR
                Document 16.2 “In the Name of God, Creator of the Universe”
    Congressional Resolution on Rescue
                Document 16.3 Text of the Gillette-Rogers Resolution (H. Res. 352)
    Breckinridge Long’s Testimony
                Document 16.4 “Statement of Hon. Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State”
    Exposing the State Department
                Document 16.5 “Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews”
    Further Reading
    17. Zionism and the Holocaust
    The White Paper
                Document 17.1 “Palestine Statement of Policy Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty” (White Paper)
    A Christian Zionist Speaks Out
                Document 17.2 “The Fifth Freedom”
    Proposed Anglo-American Statement
                Document 17.3 “Statement for Issuance by the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom Regarding Palestine”
    1944 Republican and Democratic Party Platforms
                Document 17.4 Republican Party Platform of 1944 and Democratic Party Platform of 1944
    FDR’s 1944 Statement on Zionism
                Document 17.5 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelt’s October 1944 Statement Regarding Palestine
    Further Reading
    18. The War Refugee Board
    Creation of the War Refugee Board
                Document 18.1 “Executive Order No. 9417 Establishing a War Refugee Board”
    A Presidential Warning
                Document 18.2 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelt’s March 24, 1944, Statement Regarding Nazi Collaborators
    A Surprising Poll
                Document 18.3 Gallup Poll Findings Concerning Temporary Admission of Refugees
    Rescuing Romanian Jews
                Document 18.4 Life Line to a Promised Land
    Raoul Wallenberg’s Mission
                Document 18.5 With Wallenberg in Budapest
    Further Reading
    19. Bombing Auschwitz
    The Auschwitz Escapees’ Report
                Document 19.1 “The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Birkenau in     Upper Silesia”
    A Plea to Bomb the Railways
                Document 19.2 Diary of Jacob Rosenheim
    A Plea to Bomb the Gas Chambers
                Document 19.3 World Jewish Congress Official Urges Assistant Secretary of War to Bomb Gas Chambers at Auschwitz and Nearby Railways
    The War Department’s Rejection Letter
                Document 19.4 Assistant Secretary of War Rejects Proposal to Bomb Railways to Auschwitz
    A Public Appeal for Bombing
                Document 19.5 “Last Chance for Rescue”
    Further Reading
    20. Liberation
    A GI Encounters the Holocaust
                Document 20.1 Liberation of Dachau
    Eisenhower Urges Media to See the Camps
                Document 20.2 Call for Prominent Witnesses to “Conditions of Indescribable Horror”
    Marlon Brando, Holocaust Witness
                Document 20.3 A Flag Is Born Play
    An American Chaplain in Buchenwald
                Document 20.4 An American Chaplain Encounters Survivors in Buchenwald
    The Harrison Report
                Document 20.5 “Report of Earl G. Harrison”
    State of the Field
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index