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THE ABANDONMENT OF THE JEWS - Wyman   Term Paper ID:27503 Click to get this paper

Essay Subject: Assesses David Wyman's book THE ABANDONMENT OF THE JEWS, which looks at charge that U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the Holocaust, & willfully & wantonly ignored the situation.... More...

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Paper Abstract: Assesses David Wyman's book THE ABANDONMENT OF THE JEWS, which looks at charge that U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the Holocaust, & willfully & wantonly ignored the situation. Paper Introduction: David Wyman in his book Abandonment of the Jews discusses one of the more shameful issues for Americans of World War II. This is the degree to which the American government knew about the Holocaust before and during the war and the way Americans failed to do the very least that could be expected and failed to make public the knowledge of what was taking place. The period covered is from 1941 to 1945, the years of the war. The government did not know about the Holocaust for certain until 1942, and it did little with that knowledge until much later. At the outset, Wyman sets out the findings he considers most significant about the story he will tell, and these are indeed the conclusions that he reaches and shape the story as he tells it. He finds first that the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office had no intention of rescuing large numbers of Eu Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. At the outset, Wyman sets out the findings he considers mostsignificant about the story he will tell, and these are indeed theconclusions that he reaches and shape the story as he tells it. The Abandonment of the Jews. State Department and the British Foreign Office had nointention of rescuing large numbers of European Jews because they fearedthat Germany or other Axis nations would release thousands of Jews to theAllies and so create a refugee problem that could bring pressure on Britainto open Palestine. It has beenevident for some time that the historical record needed to be corrected andthat the professions of outrage were overstated given the fact that theseAmerican and European leaders could have done something to stop the killingand chose to do virtually nothing. What he shows is that a large number of forces either purposelyprevented action or saw more advantage in ignoring the problem than indoing something about it. David Wyman in his book Abandonment of the Jews discusses one of themore shameful issues for Americans of World War II. Seventh, the WarDepartment in 1944 rejected appeals to bomb Auschwitz and the railroadsleading to Auschwitz with the claim that this would divert resources neededelsewhere, though in fact there were then numerous American raids takingplace within 5 miles of Auschwitz. Third, the WarRefugee Board established by Roosevelt to save Jews and other Nazi victimswas given little power, virtually no cooperation by the administration, andinadequate funding. Second, he states that there was authenticatedinformation that the Nazis were systematically exterminating European Jewsand that it was made public in the U.S. This is clearly what irks Wyman the most, and ultimately he determinesthat the primary reason why America did not do more to save the Jews inEurope was because America did not want to do so: It was not a lack of workable plans that stood in the way of saving many thousands more European Jews. Certainly, once the war was over and the enormity of the Nazi crimewas made manifest, American leaders along with European leaders expressedoutrage and claimed the moral high ground on the matter. could have done that the administration simply did notdo. was simplynot prepared for the war in spite of clear indications that it was coming,and even when it did, it was viewed first as something America had tocontrol for its own sake and not as a means of saving Europe or protectingany people except the American people. The war was taking up a good deal of energy, andalways there was the over-riding concern for self-preservation on the partof the nations of Europe and the American people as well. Finally, however, the American rescue effort, though poor, wasbetter than that of Great Britain, Russia, or the other Allied Nationsbecause of the work of the War Refugee Board (x-xi). Fourth, State Department policies only allowed 21, refugees intothe United States during the time the country was at war with Germany, andthis was only 1 percent of the number who could have been legally admittedunder then-current immigration quotas. He does a good job of showing the various factions atwork in that time period and the ways in which they interacted around thisissue. Eighth, after an analysis of rescueproposals rejected by the government, Wyman concludes that more could havebeen done and that a real rescue effort could have been successful. One of the more surprising revelations in this book--though it hadbeen revealed before, it has remained a piece of information Americans seemto forget--is how early knowledge of the extermination of the Jews wasacquired and made public in the United States. Wyman considers the issue not only in terms of American involvementand lack of involvement but in terms of the actions taken or not taken byother Allied powers. Nor was it insufficient shipping, the threat of infiltration by subversive agents, or the possibility that rescue projects would hamper the war effort. in November 1942. Wyman talks about the impactof this news in the United States and notes how it penetrated some groupsand not others. PresidentRoosevelt did nothing about this information for 14 months and then tookaction only because he faced pressures he could not avoid as hisadministration faced a scandal over its rescue policies. He findsfirst that the U.S. Work CitedWyman, David S. The really disheartening partof this story is how the Roosevelt administration and others failed tofollow up on this information and did not do all that was possible to saverefugees, to gain the release of those incarcerated, or in any way to stopthe horror taking place. The real obstacle was the absence of a strong desire to rescue Jews (339). Overall, though, the tendency was to discount theextermination reports because people simply could not believe them orbecause the public did not trust the sources of this story (27). In telling the story of this era, Wyman begins with a description ofthe relations between Europe and America in the 193 s and into the waryears and shows how anti-immigrant sentiment developed in the United Statesand developed out of the isolationism of the 193 s. Yet, the American government did believe these stories and hadconfirmation of its own that they were true. What little was attempted actually hadan impact, as shown by the efforts of the War Refugee Board. Some of the concerns were related to the wareffort and might be understandable in that context, but in fact there weresome things the U.S. Thegovernment did not know about the Holocaust for certain until 1942, and itdid little with that knowledge until much later. The U.S. It is logical that such aprogram would not remain hidden for long given the scope of it and thenumber of people who had to be aware of it. Ninth,Roosevelt's indifference can be seen as the worst failure of hispresidency. This is the degree towhich the American government knew about the Holocaust before and duringthe war and the way Americans failed to do the very least that could beexpected and failed to make public the knowledge of what was taking place.The period covered is from 1941 to 1945, the years of the war. These peoplewanted to assure that they would win the war before they dedicatedresources to saving others, though it is not clear that they would haveexpended resources on Jews given a certain anti-Semitic bent in America andEurope at the time. Sixth, American Jewish leaders tried to publicizethe situation in Europe but proved ineffective because they could notsustain or unify a drive for government action. Fifth, strong pressure for actionmight have changed the policies of the government, but there were factorshampering such pressure, such as anti-Semitism in the country and anti-immigrant sentiments. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.