PART I HISTORICAL REVIEW AND ANALYSIS

In reviewing the events which gave rise to the U.S.'s foreign policy

toward Jewish refugees, we must identify the relevant factors upon which such

decisions were made. Factors including the U.S. government's policy mechanisms,

it's bureaucracy and public opinion, coupled with the narrow domestic political

mindedness of President Roosevelt, lead us to ask; Why was the American

government apathetic to the point of culpability, and isolationist to the point

of irresponsibility, with respect to the systematic persecution and annihilation

of the Jewish people of Europe during the period between 1938-1945?

Throughout the years of 1933-1939, led by Neville Chamberlain and the

British, the United States was pursuing a policy of appeasement toward Hitler.

They had tolerated his military build-up and occupation of the Rhineland, both

violations of the Treaty of Versailles, as well as the annexing of Austria and

the take-over of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Hitler realized early on in

his expansionist campaign that Western leaders were too busy dealing with their

own domestic problems to pose any real oppos

world domination. As early as February 1939, this was brought to the

Americans were wrestling with the ravages of the Great Depression. With the

Some researchers have claimed that Roosevelt didn't think that the war

a normal psychological mechanism. Images of factories producing soap, glue,

rhetoric had been predominant in the U.S. approach to the refugees and would

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