03-28-2017, 09:13 PM
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(03-28-2017, 10:41 AM)BenSkywalker Wrote: That would be FDR- the man who turned Jews back and sent them to their deathsEpic fail. William D. Rubinstein's The Myth of Rescue debunks this myth:
- US immigration restrictions long predated FDR, being instituted and extended during the administrations of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover–all of them Republicans
- Some of our stricter immigration policies that Nazi Germany was abusing against its own Jews were relaxed by FDR
- They were nothing special in the 20s and 30s, an era with increased restrictions on immigration
- The German quota, which included German Jews, was the second highest quota that we had back then
- The Jews of Nazi Germany by and large didn't want to emigrate until after Kristallnacht, and even when they did, the USA usually wasn't their first choice
- What evidence there is for German Jewish emigration to the USA supports this
- For German Jews, emigration was considered an individual choice, not a mass group decision
- 72% of Nazi Germany's Jews, 22% of Czech Jews, and 68.1% of Austrian Jews managed to escape
- When looked at in an international context, and in the context of restricted immigration in general, the world did a good job of rescue
- Nobody could foresee the Holocaust coming at the time

