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German “initiative” no longer determined foreign emigration policies because there
existed among the attendees an “extensive aversion” to admit Jewish refugees, either due
to “social considerations” or reflective of an “unexpressed racial abhorrence.” Future
German emigration policies were now greatly influenced by the actions of the IGCR but
since the Reich rejected any outside interference in domestic internal affairs and had
already refused to allow Jews to increase the amount of capital removed from the country
it was to be expected that over time the rate and numbers of Jews emigrating from
Germany would progressively diminish. Thus, until the IGCR was operative it was
“urgent” for the Government to persuade “as many Jews to emigrate under existing
conditions.” However, it was crucial that sufficient foreign currency be provided to
facilitate this migration. 144
Germany could not believe and mocked FDR’s “appeal to the nature of the
world as long as the United States maintains racial quotas for immigrants.” 145 “We see
that one likes to pity the Jews as long as one can use this pity for a wicked agitation
against Germany, but that no state is prepared to fight the cultural disgrace of central
Europe by accepting a few thousand Jews. Thus, the conference serves to justify
Germany’s policy against Jewry.” 146
“It appears astounding that these countries seem in
no way particularly anxious to make use of this element themselves, now that the
144 “The SD on the Outcome of the Evian Conference Report of SD II 112” Yad Vashem Archive,
0.51/OSO/37 Berlin, July 29, 1938 available from
http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%203528.pdf; accessed June 5, 2010.
145 Volkischer Beobachter, April 26, 1938.
146 Danziger Vorposten cited in Perl, Holocaust Conspiracy, 41.
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