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maintain that the conference was set up to fail while providing propaganda value for the
participating democracies.
The hypocritical rhetoric and actions of the delegates and the ineffectiveness of
the conference’s sole creation, the Intergovernmental Committee for Political Refugees,
was clearly recognized by Nazi Germany and ultimately influenced its anti-Jewish
policies. Thus, it is not a coincidence that the pogrom of November 1938, Kristallnacht,
occurred only four months later. The avoidance of dealing with the Jewish refugee
problem was further highlighted in the futile Wagner-Rogers Bill of 1939, the Hennings
bill of 1940 and especially the Bermuda Conference of 1943, a time in which the details
of mass murder of Jews and other groups was already well known within official circles.
Further work needs to be done on the diverse responses of the Jewish community both
within the United States and abroad to the peril facing their co-religionists.
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