Almost 100,000 of the 340,000 who fled Germany & Austria wound up in countries the Nazi conquered, where they died.https://twitter.com/crimkadid/status/776568183654191104 …
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Most Americans didn't want to get involved in another European war. But it was clear throughout the 30s that war was what Hitler wanted.
Even in 1940 a total French collapse in the face of a resurrected German Army seemed unlikely. In 1933 it seemed impossible.
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Arguing that U.S. should take in every single German Jew even when other countries were available would never have won support.
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@crimkadid Well, such a suggestion did not win support, as I've shown here through numerous polls. And those opinions had consequences. - Show replies
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@crimkadid In August '39, William Bullitt, the American Ambassador in France wrote home that if Hitler took Poland, -
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@crimkadid "It was exceedingly doubtful, to put it mildly, that France and England would be able to win the war." http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1939v01.p0315&id=FRUS.FRUS1939v01&isize=M&q1=conquer … - Show replies
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