940.5318 WAS Wasserstein, Bernard. Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939 - 1945 / B. Wasserstein. - London : Institute of Jewish Affairs ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. - 389 p. - (Oxford Paperbacks). - Bibliography : p. 363 - 378. - ISBN 0-19-282185-7. - Текст : непосредственный. Index : p. 379 - 389
Britain and the Jewish Problem Sealing the Escape Routes The Home Front The "Final Solution" The British Response False Hopes Resistance Unconditional Surrender
In 1942 Anthony Eden declared to the shocked House of Commons that the Germans were "now carrying into effect Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe". Yet for the duration of the war the British government continued to reject all proposals for saving even a small minority of the Jews, whose escape routes from Europe it had already sealed. This book examines British policy towards the Jewish problem during the Second World War. Based on archival sources, it explores the reasons for the near-total ban on Jewish refugee immigration to Britain, the restrictive immigration policy in Palestine, the failure to aid Jewish resistance in Europe, and the rejection of the scheme for the Allied bombing of Auschwitz. What emerges is a lamentable story of bureaucratic complacency, inhumanity, and blindness to the Jewish catastrophe in Europe. Bernard Wasserstein is Professor of History at Brandeis University. His other books include "The British in Palestine" and "The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln"
