Holocaust bump.
' In fact, the War Department had already secretly decided, back in February 1944, that as a matter of principle it would never use military resources "for the purposes of rescuing victims of enemy oppression."
This policy was in accord with the policies of president Roosevelt and his State Department, who feared that saving Jews would create pressure to bring them to the United States. One internal State Department official specifically warned against the "danger" that the Nazis "might agree to turn over to the United States and to Great Britain a large number of Jewish refugees." '
From another article:
'In the wake of Kristallnacht, humanitarian-minded members of Congress introduced legislation to aid German Jewry. A bill sponsored by Sen. Robert Wagner (D-N.Y.) 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."
An appeal to FDR by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for his support of the bill fell on deaf ears, and an inquiry by a congresswoman as to the president's position was returned to his secretary marked "File No action FDR." '
http://www.aish.com/SSI/articleToPrint.asp?PageURL=/holocaust/issues/Kristallnacht_And_The_Worlds
By the way, the son of an Auschwitz survivor once told me that the inhabitants of the camp used to look up at the Allied planes flying overhead and actually prayed that they would bomb the camp - that was far more important to them than their own survival.
And if not the camp, why not the tracks?
...and if we'd have bombed the camps, we'd still be trying to answer for the carnage to innocent lives -- and paying with big bucks as long as there was anyone even remotely related to any of the victims still alive. Sorry. This revisionism is worthless. How dare anyone give the US a piece of the blame for the suffering when it was the Germans and they alone who inflicted it. I grow weary of such. But I suppose it's as inevitable as mold growing on stale bread. Leave it laying around long enough and someone will blame the US.
This policy was in accord with the policies of president Roosevelt and his State Department, who feared that saving Jews would create pressure to bring them to the United States.
Another reason why old Gumlegs is ranked higher than Reagan. Interned Japanese and pissed on the Jews. Hard to decide which is more racists, Woodrow Wilson or FDR. Guess we'll need Robert Byrd to decide.
Holocaust bump.
It's a marvel to me that American Jews vote in lockstep for the Democratic Party. It didn't help them then...it doesn't help them now, but embraces anti-Israel lefties like Michael Moore. It allows sexual predators like Bill Clinton to prey on a young Jewish girl like Monica Lewinsky then excuses his abhorrent conduct.
Look at the Jews in "civilized" France today, again facing anti-Semitism and being advised to take off their yarmulkas when they exit their homes, so they don't look Jewish and thereby open themselves to attack. Where's the outrage among French intellectuals and the French media elite?
Why waste time on this trivis?