The Evian Conference Of 1938 And The Jewish Refugee Crisis (the Holocaust And Its Contexts)
by Paul R. Bartrop /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book provides the first dedicated study of the Evian
Conference of July 1938, an international initiative called by
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. While on the surface
the conference appeared as an attempt to alleviate the distress
faced by Jews being forced out of Germany and Austria, in reality
it only served to demonstrate that the nations of the world were
not willing to accept Jews as refugees. Since the Holocaust, a
generally-held assumption has been that the Evian Conference
represented a lost opportunity to save Germany’s Jews, and that
the conference failed to rescue the Jews of Europe. In this
study, Paul Bartrop argues that in fact it did not fail when
measured against the original reasons for which it was called.
Exposing many of the myths surrounding the meeting, this work
addresses a glaring lacuna in the literature of the Holocaust,
and places the so-called 'failure' of the Evian Conference into
its proper context.
This book provides the first dedicated study of the Evian
Conference of July 1938, an international initiative called by
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. While on the surface
the conference appeared as an attempt to alleviate the distress
faced by Jews being forced out of Germany and Austria, in reality
it only served to demonstrate that the nations of the world were
not willing to accept Jews as refugees. Since the Holocaust, a
generally-held assumption has been that the Evian Conference
represented a lost opportunity to save Germany’s Jews, and that
the conference failed to rescue the Jews of Europe. In this
study, Paul Bartrop argues that in fact it did not fail when
measured against the original reasons for which it was called.
Exposing many of the myths surrounding the meeting, this work
addresses a glaring lacuna in the literature of the Holocaust,
and places the so-called 'failure' of the Evian Conference into
its proper context.