Chapter 7

Question 1

German anti-jewish action

Answer 1

Nuremberg laws - jews lost citizenship and voting rights
Drove Jews out of Austria
Imprissoned jews after Kristallnacht

Question 2

Kristallnacht

Answer 2

Jew killed german officer
Excuse to open violence
Resulted in imprisonment and camps

Question 3

US reaction to german policy

Answer 3

Evian Conference
Kristallnacht condemned
Wanger-Rogers bill
Antipathy to jewosh immigration

Question 4

Evian Conference

Answer 4

32 countries and 24 organizations
US rep had little knowledge of immigration
Countries made excuses for not allowing jewish immigration
US didn’t want to change quotas

Question 5

IGCR

Answer 5

Intergovernmental committee on refugees
Set up in Evian conference
Pressured germans to let Jews leave
Nazis didn’t cooperate

Question 6

Wagner-Rogers Bill

Answer 6

1939
Proposed admitting 20,000 jewish children
Shot down
US should help own poor children first

Question 7

SS st louis case

Answer 7

903 jews refused from Cuba and US

Went back to Germany and most died

Question 8

US early concerns

Answer 8

Antipathy

Spies

Question 9

Final solution

Answer 9

Riegner report
High gov knew about massacres
Plan to save 70,000
Nothing done

Question 10

Bermuda conference

Answer 10

1943
Concern about treatment of refugees
Sent jews to N. africa

Question 11

War refugee board

Answer 11

Gave jews documents
Created escapes and refugee camps
Saved 250,000 jews
Proposed bombing concentration camps

Raoul Wallenberg saved 70,000 jews in Budapest ghetto

Question 12

Latin America and Canada

Answer 12

Restricted immigration of Jews
Latin America let in jews and nazis
Canada took UK’s jewish internees