The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, describes the reaction to Kristallnacht in the US: Kristallnacht, (German: "Crystal Night"), the night of November 9-10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers ironically to the litter of broken glass left in the streets after these pogroms.
"President Franklin Roosevelt condemned the pogrom, recalled the U.S. ambassador from Germany for 'consultations,' and extended the visitors' visas of the approximately 12,000 German Jewish refugees who were then in the United States. But at the same time, FDR announced that liberalization of America's tight immigration quotas was 'not in contemplation.' The Christian Science Monitor echoed Roosevelt's position, telling its readers that prayer, not more immigration, was the best response to the persecution of German Jewry.
- In the wake of Kristallnacht, humanitarian-minded members of Congress introduced legislation to aid German Jewry. A bill sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) and Rep. Edith Rogers (R-Mass) proposed the admission of 20,000 German refugee children outside the quotas. Nativist and isolationist groups vociferously opposed the Wagner-Rogers bill. Typical of their perspective was a remark by FDR's cousin, Laura Delano Houghteling, who was the wife of the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration: she warned that '20,000 charming children would all too soon grow into 20,000 ugly adults.' February, 1939, the Wagner-Rogers bill died in Congress. Roosevelt refused to take a position on it.
- On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba, with 937 passengers. Almost all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich. 743 had been waiting to receive US visas. The Cuban government refused to admit them. Some passengers on the St. Louis cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge. Roosevelt never responded.' 254 of the passengers returned to Europe would perish in the Holocaust.
- Four months before Kristallnacht, the Roosevelt administration had organized a conference in Evian, France, and invited delegates from 32 countries to discuss the Jewish refugee problem. But the delegates reaffirmed their unwillingness to liberalize their immigration quotas, and the British refused to even discuss Palestine as a possible haven. One German newspaper's comment on Evian stands out: 'We can see that one likes to pity the Jews"but no state is prepared to " accept a few thousand Jews. Thus, the conference serves to justify Germany's policy against Jewry.'"
On May 18, 1942, The New York Times reported, but on an inside page, that Nazis had machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia. By this date, millions had been gassed.
In the June 10,1944 issue of Nation Magazine, Editor I. F. Stone wrote "For the Jews - Life or Death? - regarding a weak proposal to make so called 'free ports' of army camps in the US for refugee Jews.
"The longer we delay the fewer Jews there will be left to rescue, the slimmer the chances to get them out. Between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 European Jews have been killed since August, 1942, when the Nazi extermination campaign began."
The most violent persecution, brutal arrests and internment had been done openly in a world basically owned and run by the 'democratically' elected legislatures of white industrialized nations, nations that had earlier used their edge in arms manufacture to conquer, colonize and exploit the whole non white population of the world. When the difficult to believe newsreels and newspaper photos of the indescribably inhuman conditions inside the camps, of heaps of hundreds of naked bodies and of the cremation ovens were seen, they did not awaken a change in the of the long standing fierce antipathy and prejudice toward Jews which sustained an attitude of opposition to the entry of Jews, even as survivors of the Holocaust, into the USA, in spite of the wide open spaces it contained.
The rearming of Germany made possible Hitler's invasions of twenty-two countries and brought world war to Asia, for Japan would not have dared to attack and declare war on the United States of America without it being able to count on an alliance with an awesomely powerful rearmed Nazi Germany, plus Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania, which all declared war on the USA immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The Second World War and the Holocaust, which made the rich speculators of Wall Street owning America the sole world superpower, is estimated to have taken the lives of 70 or more million men, women and children, including six million of Jewish Holocaust. Within this total were the 28 million citizens, men, women and children, of the Soviet Union, which had been the target goal for the rearming of Germany by a consensus of the wealthiest American and European capitalists. A further plus for Wall Street was that half the cities of Wall Street's designated archenemy, socialist model USSR, lay in ruins.
Arming Hitler's Impoverished Low Wage Nazi Germany Was the Most Profitable Investment in History and Initially It Was Done Openly with FDR Fully Aware His Cronies Were Investing in Hitler's Military
The 'Good War' Coverup Slogan Unmasked By Well Kept Business Records and Tax Documentation That the Second World War was a 'good war,' a clear fight against what a madman had brought about, has been a major and fundamental deception solidified in Wall Street owned media and movies. The famous American historian Studs Terkel in his The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (1984), writes with unabashed cynicism, "While the rest of the world came out bruised and scarred and nearly destroyed, we came out with the most unbelievable machinery, tools, manpower, money " The war was fun for America. I'm not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us the war was a hell of a good time."
The Nazi Counsel for the Defense at the Nuremberg Trials Said the Truth
The deception fostered in Wall Street war investors owned press and TV that the white people of the American, English, French and other racist European colonial empires were good guy heroes during the Second World War has been pervasive and universal. Even the outcry of the German Counsel for the Defense in his summation at the major Nuremberg trial, heard by the audience of millions that saw the block buster American documentary movie Judgement at Nuremberg, (with Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy and Marlena Dietrich) seems to have made little impression.
"Your Honor? What about the rest of the world? Did it not know the intentions of the Third Reich? Did it not hear the words of Hitler's broadcast all over the world? Did it not read his intentions in Mein Kampf, published in every corner of the world?"
Where is the responsibility of the world leader Winston Churchill...who said in an open letter to the London Times in 1938, Were England to suffer a national disaster, I should pray to God...to send a man of the strength of mind and will of an Adolf Hitler.' In 1938! your honor," repeats Schell shouting the date one year before Hitler invaded Poland. "Are we now to find Winston Churchill guilty? Where is the responsibility of the Vatican...who signed in the concordat with Hitler...giving him his first tremendous prestige? Are we now to find the Vatican guilty? Where is the responsibility of those American industrialists, who helped Hitler to rebuild his armaments and profited by that rebuilding?!! Are we not to find the American industrialists guilty?" shouts actor Maximilian Schell in defense of the Nazis on trial.
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