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opportunity offers.” 147 “Aside from the purely administrative creation of a committee that
will maintain contact between the interested governments…the results of this conference
are very meager.” 148 “If the Jews of Germany are so dear to their hearts, they can
certainly have them.” 149 It was considered remarkable that the Australian delegate,
Minister for Trade and Customs, Thomas White, feared that Jewish immigration would
“endanger his own race.” 150
The Conference’s primary purpose was to garner votes for
Roosevelt in the upcoming national elections and to generate “anti-Fascist currents” and
anti-German propaganda. 151 The Berlin Der Weltkampf noted in 1939 that Germany
openly admitted that it did not want any Jews to reside within its borders while the
democratic nations continued to maintain that they were “willing to receive them—then
leave the guest out in the cold. Aren’t we savages better men after all?” 152
Ominously and reflective of a hardening Nazi policy towards its Jews, Das
Schwarze Korps called for the economic dislocation and ghettoization of Jews within
Germany. Destitute Jews, confined to limited living space, would consequently pose a
147 Diplomatische Politische Korrespondenz cited in “Germans Belittle Results,” New York Times, July
13, 1938, 12.
148 “No One Wants to Have Them,” Voelkischer Beobachter, July 13, 1938 available from
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/evian2.html; Internet; accessed June 24, 2008.
149 Muncher Nachrichten in Alfred A. Häsler, The Lifeboat is Full (NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969), 28-29
cited in Abraham J. and Hershel Edelheit, History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary (Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 1994), 129.
150 Heinz Boberach, ed., Meldungen aus dem Reich: Die geheimen Lageberichte des Sicherheitsdientses
der SS 1938-1945, vol. 2 (Herrsching, 1984), 23 cited in Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol. 1,
219.
151 Der Angriff cited in the Washington Post, July 15, 1938, 16. Der Angriff (The Attack) was a NSDAP
Berlin newspaper established by the future Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, in 1927.
152 Der Weltkampf cited in Ninette Kelly and Michael J. Trebilcock, The Making of the Mosaic: A
History of Canadian Immigration Policy (London, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2000), 252.
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