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Another reason why the U.S. Government chose to ignore the predicament of the Jews was the Great Depression. In a nation where so many of our people were unemployed or underemployed, throwing open the gates to immigrants, especially Jews, would have been seen as political suicide.
A New York Times piece in Sept., 1935 referred to the Nuremberg Laws (which legally severed the German-Jewish community from the Non-Jews,) as "The Shame of Nuremberg." I wonder why they did not protest the Jim Crow laws in this country, laws that also separated a Minority from the rest of society wherever the laws operated? Don't tell me, it was mere rhetoric. We all KNOW the answer to that one.
Just after the Crystal Night Pogrom of 9-10 November, 1938, the pogrom was front-page news in the N.Y. Times. Virtually nothing was done. Even H.L. Mencken, himself an Anti-Semite, wrote a column deploring this situation.
The Evian Conference, held in 1939, was ostensibly called to make it possible for more Jews to go to lands outside of Germany. Nothing was accomplished. Tens of thousands, perhaps more, could have been saved. The Australian delegate spoke for many when he said "As we have no racial problem, we are not desireous of importing one."
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