Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART I THE MAKING OF THE MULTIPLE TRAP
- PART II THE RESCUE DEBATE, THE MACRO PICTURE, AND THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
- 10 Missed Opportunities?
- 11 The Intelligence Services and Rescue Options
- 12 The Jewish “Refugee Traffic”: The Road to Biltmore and Its Ramifications
- 13 American Wartime Realities, 1942–1943
- 14 Bermuda, Breckinridge Long, G-2, Biddle, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine Again
- 15 Roosevelt, Stimson, and the Palestine Question: British Inputs
- 16 The Views of Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence, Consul General Pinkerton, and Rabbi Nelson Glueck
- 17 Various Methods of Rescue
- PART III THE SELF-DEFEATING MECHANISM OF THE RESCUE EFFORTS
- PART IV THE BRAND–GROSZ MISSIONS WITHIN THE LARGER PICTURE OF THE WAR AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS
- PART V THE END OF THE FINAL SOLUTION: BACK TO HOSTAGE-TAKING TACTICS
- Epilogue: Self-Traps: The OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg
- Notes on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
14 - Bermuda, Breckinridge Long, G-2, Biddle, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine Again
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART I THE MAKING OF THE MULTIPLE TRAP
- PART II THE RESCUE DEBATE, THE MACRO PICTURE, AND THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
- 10 Missed Opportunities?
- 11 The Intelligence Services and Rescue Options
- 12 The Jewish “Refugee Traffic”: The Road to Biltmore and Its Ramifications
- 13 American Wartime Realities, 1942–1943
- 14 Bermuda, Breckinridge Long, G-2, Biddle, Taylor and Rayburn, and Palestine Again
- 15 Roosevelt, Stimson, and the Palestine Question: British Inputs
- 16 The Views of Harold Glidden and/or British Intelligence, Consul General Pinkerton, and Rabbi Nelson Glueck
- 17 Various Methods of Rescue
- PART III THE SELF-DEFEATING MECHANISM OF THE RESCUE EFFORTS
- PART IV THE BRAND–GROSZ MISSIONS WITHIN THE LARGER PICTURE OF THE WAR AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS
- PART V THE END OF THE FINAL SOLUTION: BACK TO HOSTAGE-TAKING TACTICS
- Epilogue: Self-Traps: The OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg
- Notes on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Franklin D. Roosevelt seems to have been exposed to conflicting views, from Hitler's former intimate friend Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengel's description of top Nazi behavior in terms of “Jewish self-hatred” to images of threatening, corrupt, and almost criminal elements among the European Jews who might be allowed entry into the United States. Hanfstaengel's view of Nazi Germany was that of a “dynamic chaos” caused by power-obsessed, cynical exponents of lower middle-class degeneration, some of them allegedly Jewish in origin, such as Hans Frank (Governor General of occupied Poland), whose great-grandfather was supposedly Jewish. Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was accordingly “close” to rich Jewish circles before he discovered the “Nordic soul” and moved away from them. Nazi “chief ideologue” Alfred Rosenberg was allegedly 95% Jewish. “One could ascertain indeed certain Jewish characteristics among aggressive anti-Semites.”
But usually the president deferred everything related to the rescue of Jews to the State Department, which he in fact did not trust very much but used now to take the heat of criticism at home, loudly made in some key media and in the rally at Madison Square Garden against the administration's inaction on rescue matters.
Matters related to the rescue of Jews and refugee problems usually fell into the hands of Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, who worked behind the scenes to curb Jewish immigration to the country by arguing that there were dubious elements among the would-be immigrants.
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- Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews , pp. 125 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004