Now I discover it is far worse, and far more pervasive, than I every expected.
What is it?
"It" is the world's reaction to the Nazi's holocaust.
I'm reading a smallish book - only 255 pages of fairly large (~12 point) print - by William R. Perl. The book is titled "The Holocaust Conspiracy, An International Policy of Genocide." We all know about the Nazi's attempt to make Europe free of Jews. We also know of the enthusiasm of the Nazi friends in Eastern Europe. We know because "they" lost the war.
We are starting to learn about the Vatican's role in the holocaust.
We know about the SS St. Louis*, the Hamburg-America Line (Hapag), ship that sailed from Germany to Cuba with a passenger list of Jews with Cuban entry papers, papers declared invalid by Batista. The Jews, refused entry, stayed on board as the St. Louis sailed up the coast of the United States, with the captain trying to convince the US government to allow the passengers entry. In the end, the St. Louis returned the passengers to the only country to accept them ... and to their deaths.
Some of us know - and many more have refused to acknowledge the reality - that FDR was anything but a "savior" of the Jews that many Jews of his time believed. Like JFK after him, he received credit for things he never did,
Perl's book, with an introduction by Claiborne Pell, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1987-1994, bares the US State Department's on-going anti-Jewish attitude with proof after proof. At the same time, it identifies those in the US government - mostly Treasury - who tried to move the US to save at least children.
On the other side of the pond, Churchill gets high marks although he was surrounded by those who were all too willing to let the Germans have their way with its own Jews and the Jews they inherited as they occupied their neighbors' lands. Many of the neighbors were, of course, all too willing to aid and abet the Nazis.
This is a book that ought to be in every Jewish home; every synagogue library ought to have several copies.
The one bright point is that we can, in the US, publish a book that embarrasses us as a nation so that we can learn and prevent a repetition.
FDR was a politician's politician and he did nothing to jeopardize his position. Many of the positive things he did - both domestically and internationally - can be laid at the feet of his wife.
Perl's book is well documented both with references and a mid-section that contains some of the damning documents cited by the author.
The table of contents is brief:
- Conspiracy: The Psychosocial Context
- Setting the Course: The Fiasco of the Evian Conference - An American-British Conspiracy
- Conspiracy in the American Hierarchy
- Conspiracy in the British Hierarchy
- Soviet Policies that Supported the Final Solution Photographs and Documents
- How the Allies Kept Auschwitz Operating
- The Other Americas; Latin American - Canada
- The Moral Powers; The Vatican, the IRC, Switzerland
- Epilogue: Could it happen again?
The copy I read came from the local lending library, but I can assure you I will be searching the WWW for a copy to purchase.
* About the SS St. Louis
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/j/jarvik-laurence/Jarvic-01.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/stlouis.html
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