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Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941 Paperback – October 12, 1985

by David S. Wyman (Author)

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In this essential companion to The Abandonment of the Jews, David S. Wyman examines American policy on the refugees in the years leading up to World War II. For almost four agonizing years from 1938 to 1941, German Jews tried to leave their country. Barred from the United States by restrictive immigration policies, millions ultimately were killed, and a mere 150,000 finally found haven in this country. How could such a tragedy have come about? Wyman's answer is that America's public resistance had four bases: unemployment, nationalism, anti-Semitism, and, later, fear of fifth columnists disguised as refugees. In this thorough and even-handed analysis, Wyman concludes that this was essentially what the American people wanted.

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Paperback: 326 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; Revised edition (October 12, 1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0394736591
ISBN-13: 978-0394736594
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,084,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1749 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Emigration & Immigration
- #51435 in Books > History > Americas > United States
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Troubling but compelling little-known history

By HanaBluma on December 8, 2008

Format: Paperback

David Wyman, a non-Jewish professor of history at the Univ. of Mass. has done enormous research on the American response to the Nazi assault on the Jews. The result has been three books - this being the chronological first part of a shocking and dreadful tale. For what Wyman uncovered is so disconcerting that it makes it impossible to ever again see FDR's administration with the same degree of admiration one might previously have had. The story of high officials, abetted by a heartless Congress, who not only would not aid a single Jew in escaping Hitler's clutches, but who erected high obstacles to their coming to America is an ugly revelation that makes the reader ashamed of that history. And outraged, even though Wyman presents his story factually and unemotionally. I suppose we still don't want to acknowledge that shameful history; otherwise, Wyman would be better known and his books would not be practically out of print.
(note, by the way, that Amazon can't even get the title right - it's "America & the Refugee Crisis." "American" doesn't even make any sense.)