The Holocaust By: Bob Schumann

Key Points  What was the tensions between the U.S. state dept and the U.S. Treasury Dept with Jewish refugees  Should the U.S. have given more aid to help Jewish refugees

Building Tensions with the State Dept.  The “Fantastic Rumor”  The State dept has many conversations with Jewish leaders about keeping quiet  The State Dept. tells Switzerland to stop sending them information about dieing Jews  The Bermuda Conference delegates

The tension with the U.S. State Dept and U.S. Treasury evolves  U.S. Treasury finds out that the State Dept. is undermining rescue efforts to help the Jewish refugees  The U.S. Treasury found the State Dept. guilty on multiple accounts of.  Concealment and misrepresentation  False attempts to save the Jews

Attempts That the U.S. made to help Jewish refugees  Negative  The S.S St. Louis carried 937 Jewish refugees, the were denied access to U.S ports and went back to Germany.

Cont…  America only let in 27,000 of the 309,000 refugees that applied for entrance to the United States  The War Dept. rejects that plea by Rabbi Wessimandl who wanted them to bomb camps and rail ways.

Attempts That the U.S. made to help Jewish refugees  Positive  The government created a War Refugee Board, (WRB).  The Board is credited with saving 200,000 different Jewish refugees  The War Department changes there mind and Bombs factories near Anschwitz

Questions  What caused the tension between the U.S state Dept. and the U.S Treasury?  What Positive attempts did the U.S make to save Jewish refugees?  What does WRB stand for?

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