The first gas chambers weren’t constructed until 1942. At the time , in the ‘30s most of America was unaware of just what was happening to Jews in Germany. And no American, in government or without could have imagined in 1933 what would eventually be discovered in 1945. 400,435 Americans didn’t give their lives in The Second World War out of the premise of a guilty conscience because ‘’we didn’t let Jews into America’’. America didn’t create gas chambers. The Germans did.
Did we or did we not refuse Jews onto our shores during the 1930’s?
You don’t need to be holding the oven doors open or shoveling Nazi camp victims into the oven to be partly responsible for the problem.
If America and Canada had allowed Jewish refugee boats onto our shoreline, during this period, we could say that we didn’t contribute to the situation, but we didn’t. That is veritable history, we can’t change it.
As my grandfather repeatedly said, you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. When we refused the Jew boats, were we part of the solution or part of the problem?
I remember hearing stories of atrocities against Jewish prisoners in Germany as early as 1941 or 1940 , when I was a boy in America. America was in denial at the time.