LEADER 02696cam a2200373 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20230126155526.0 008 970804s1997 enkb b 001 0 eng d 010 97203027 020 0415124557 035 (OCoLC)37414590 040 UkNcU |cUkNcU |dCU-A |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 042 lccopycat 043 e-gx--- 050 00 D804.3 |b.R93 1997 082 00 940.53/18 |221 100 1 Rubinstein, W. D. |d1946- 245 14 The myth of rescue : |bwhy the democracies could not have saved more Jews from the Nazis / |cWilliam D. Rubinstein. 260 London ;New York : |bRoutledge, |c1997. 300 xiii, 267 p. : |bmaps ; |c24 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 It has long been claimed that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Did they deny refuge to those fleeing Hitler's death machine? Why did they fail to bomb Auschwitz and the other concentration camps? Could they have actually negotiated with the Nazis for Jewish lives? Arguing that the rescue of the Jewish people has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that no Jew who perished in the Holocaust could have been saved by any action of the Western Allies. Presenting what was actually known of the Holocaust at the time and what actions were realistically possible, William D. Rubinstein traces the development of the arguments surrounding the debate and debunks the "myths" that were generated in the 1970s and '80s: the myth of the closed-door immigration policies in the years 1933-40 and the plans for rescue proposed by the democracies--including the bombing of concentration camps, the possibility that the War Refugee Board could have saved more Jews, and the rumors of negotiations between the democracies and Nazis to save Jewish lives. The topic is explored with a historian's skill and presented with the conviction of one who once believed that the democracies did nothing and more Jews could have been rescued but who now, through his own research, has uncovered evidence that the opposite is true. 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJews |xRescue. 650 0 Jews |zGermany |xHistory |y1933-1945. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xCauses. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6940_530000000000000_18_RUB |70 |8GEN |9161126OSA |bOSA |d2023-01-17 |eComFas |l0 |o940.53/18 RUB |r2023-01-17 |w2023-01-17 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 Pe8lDyeW 992 01 940_530000000000000_18_RUB |bQVZ_UWZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_YR_85O 966 |cIn the Research Room