During the concentration camp AUSCHWITZ, how come the U.S. didn't allow any Jewish immigrants to enter the US?

Question

(its for a report that i have to do).....

How come they didnt allow any people to flee to the U.S...... it would've saved many lives dont u think?

Answer 1

when it comes down to it, it's the individuals opinon that kept the jewish out, as the other guy said, yea they wouldn't really be helping.

Secondly, Throughout most of that era, and beg. of WWII The states were trying to keep out of the war, They didn't want to be thrown into the fight by accepting the jewish and making the german's their enemy. Remember, the whole world was still recovering from WWI, and America was less than 300 years old.

Answer 2

You are absolutely correct however the history is a bit more complicated.

this was total war.....with every ship dedicated to the war effort. The allies were aware of atrocities and the Polish and german killing camps only in 1943. Millions had already died.
However, they could have stopped the slaughter of the Hungarian jews among others.

The allies believed the best way to save the jews was to stop the war. They even blocked bombing of the rail spurs, bombing of the camps, etc. In truth they did broadcast warnings to stop the killings and were cleatr that the criminals would be held to account.

Shamefully the allies blocked jews from entering Palestine to appease the Arabs and secure oil. They blocked the granting of special citizen status to give the jews prisoner of war status. They did too little, too late to help the plight of millions.

History will judge this very harshly and unfortuantely the documentation indicates anti-semetic underpinnings on behaqlf of some prominent British and American high ranking officails.

The primary british document on blocking Jews from palestine is called the whitepapers from 1938.

No serious consideration of brining jews to America was ever attempted due to the difficulty of transporting millions by boat during the time of war.

The preferred solution was to send the Jews to palestine...but the British and the Soviets blocked this.

Reference an excellent bok.....The allies and Auschwitz....this has a complete documentation of the events 1938-1945.

The true pupose of Aushwitz was unknownllies until late mid 1943. The Auschwitz camps including Birkenau was out pof reach of allied bombers, and most cretainly allied ground troops until mid 1944.

The allies actively blocked the formation of a jewish fighting force from palestine until 1944 due to fear that they would be training Jews to effectively fight and dislodge the British from Palestine after the end of WW2.

Hope this helps......find the book.

Answer 3

They were allowed into the US. Here is a site about a few Jewish immigrants who came to New York durning the war.
"982 refugees from World War II... were allowed into the United States as "guests" of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. These refugees were housed at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York, from August 1944 until February 1946"

http://www.oswegohaven.org/

Answer 4

I think it's simplistic to say that no Jews were admitted to the US during that period. Some jump were able to jump through the bureaucratic hoops, others just didn't have the resources. Could the US have done more to welcome refugees during that period?-yes. Did the US accept a lot of refugees during that period-yes. So the truth is rather complicated.

Answer 5

You question is based on erroneous information.

Many, many Jews that fled Europe prior to the Nazis came to the U.S. Many Germans that did not want to be Nazi came here too.

Maybe you should be trying to find out why the person who gave you that information is lying to you and trying to make you Anti-American.

Answer 6

The U.S. was not the only country that had very restricted entry
policies almost every country did.

Answer 7

it was next to imposible for jewish people to leave germany or europe for that matter once the war began.....

Answer 8

refugees aren't productive to a nation's wellbeing