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Jewish Refugees In Ww2

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Jewish Refugees World War II was a difficult time for the Jewish population throughout the world, including America. The decisions America faced when the Jews fled Germany and how the officers at each border rejected citizen applicants often does not get addressed. They were required to decide how many Jews they were going to accept, and what made those Jews accepting. One of the main reasons Americans were so hesitant about allowing so many refugees in the United States were the suspicions of them being a Soviet spy or later become a Soviet spy. When they removed the Jews from their property, there were not enough American zones in Germany where Jewish refugees could go. Jewish refugees dealt with anti-semitism, which made Americans feel …show more content…

Hitler didn’t allow Jews to vote or have other rights like that which made the Jews start to flee, “between 52,000 and 63,000 Jews left Germany in 1933”(Refugees 157 ). However some of them stayed in Germany for their family. The Jews first moved to the closer countries like France and Switzerland. When Hitler started taking Jewish properties, more of them fled Germany and the neighboring countries put more boundaries and later didn’t accept Jews at all. At this point, it was already hard for the Jews to find haven, now there were fewer countries they could go to. Most of the transportation was from ships, however there was so many immigrants that the ships were very crowded which is why the Jews mostly just went to the closer countries. All of the Jews leaving made it difficult for the border …show more content…

People started seeing “the danger of permitting a flood of Jewish immigration into the U.S. and emphasized its potentially dangerous impact on American society" (Zucker 177). This is why another law was made to allow only 100,000 Jewish immigrants a year. If more were allowed, it could cause damage to the society for lack of areas for them to resettle . It would also cause people to react in an unkind way, which is why anti-semitism protests and organizations began. There were many people who found helping the refugees important; Some even died trying to protect them and to fight for

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Hatred of the Jewish population was spreading from France, and it began to infiltrate Germany. Hitler utilized this by aligning himself with the Catholic Church and creating a negative image of the Jewish population. Christianity was beginning to break away from Judaism, so Hitler began to portray the Jews as the killers of Jesus. Hitler also blamed the loss of World War I on the Jews, as well as blamed them for the economic turmoil that Germany was facing after the Treaty of Versailles. He labeled Jews as money hungry individuals since they were able to have well-paying occupations that were outside of Christian law.

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