I will give on the point that nobody could have predicted that the anti-semitism and pogroms would lead to extermination camps.
But we knew, as governments, about the pogroms and death within the ghettoes. That was not a state secret. We were definitely still guilty of sending Jews back to the ghettoes.
It’s just a question as to whether we can reasonably justify that.
“But we knew, as governments, about the pogroms and death within the ghettoes. That was not a state secret. We were definitely still guilty of sending Jews back to the ghettoes.”
I agree. Boatloads of Jews whose roots in Europe go back hundreds if not thousands of years were cramming themselves on boats to get away from their homeland. Not something that happens every day and not something that happens for no reason.
One might think that we may might have wondered whether there was a serious problem over there, instead of turning the boats away...