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rosesandpiglets t1_iyag7ga wrote

Reply to comment by Relevant_Departure40 in Antiwar Activists Who Flee Russia Find Detention, Not Freedom, in the U.S. by ThisIsNotCorn

But somehow turned away a boatload of Jewish folks…

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Usman5432 t1_iyarvdx wrote

Antisemitism was all the rage even in the US and the allied nations they didnt care about the rumors they were hearing regarding the genocide and even if they had proof of it they'd have minded their own business [like they did with Stalin's genocide], heck for a time theyre were talks of allying with Hitler against the communists but then he allied with them and invaded Poland and that plan died

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Relevant_Departure40 t1_iybpq4f wrote

Admittedly a large population of the German refugees were Jewish, and iirc, prior to the Allies liberating Auschwitz, most of America didn't know about the death camps. Hitler probably (correctly) assumed that if he openly said he was committing genocide, it would have gone much worse for him. We didn't really know what he was doing until it was far too late

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