ABANDONMNT OF THE JEWS - Hardcover

Wyman, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394428137 ISBN 13: 9780394428130

Publisher: Pantheon, 1984

Synopsis

Offers a comprehensive account of the failure of American society and government to extend even minimum assistance to the Jews of Nazi-dominated Europe

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Review:

It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler's plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe--and that these officials did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other concentration camps. David S. Wyman examines the evidence, concluding that senior American officials could indeed have saved many thousands, if not millions, of European Jews by intervening earlier. In this controversial work, he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless deaths. --Gregory McNamee

From the Author:

This book is to inform the readers of the Jewish dilemma. My book was written to inform the public of the atrocities of the U.S. Government during WWII. The government at the time knew what was going on and did nothing to stop the slaughter of millions of innocent Jews. -- David S. Wyman

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0394428137
• ISBN 13: 9780394428130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 444