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The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis
It has long been argued that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his new introduction to the paperback edition, Willliam Rubinstein responds to the controversy caused by his challenging view...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
December 27th 1999
by Routledge
(first published 1997)
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This is a valuable antidote to the common misconception that much more could have been done by the Western Democracies to save Jews from Hitler’s Holocaust. I am one of those who have been guilty of tarring the Allies with the brush of anti-Semitism by omission, and I’ve drawn up my hindsight lists of what should have been done, and by whom.
The truth is, though, that little was suggested at the time that would have made any real difference to the fate of the Jews. Only the defeat of ...more
The truth is, though, that little was suggested at the time that would have made any real difference to the fate of the Jews. Only the defeat of ...more
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