... asylum than they were at its creation. The U.S. government had successfully maintained a policy of restrictionism and isolationism. But the refugee problem would take a nasty turn, presenting them with a more serious moral headache. Three months after the conference at Evian the worst purging of German Jewry yet took place in what came to be known as Kristallnacht. Thirty thousand Jews were arrested ... Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said "People could find no place in their consciousness for such an unimaginable horror...they did not have the imagination together with the ...

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... Jews around the world, but with Non-Jews as well. Oskar Schindler, played by Liam Neeson, is a non-Jewish German "war profiteer, who because of his fundamental humanity and great courage, saved more than 1,000 Jews from death in the Holocaust- (Leisen, 1995). In the opening scene of Schindler's List, the camera follows Schindler into a nightclub, where he buys drinks for ... sent to Aushwitz, where they will be put to death in the gas chambers. He realizes that he w! on't have anymore Jews to work in his factory, and with his moral consciousness speaking to him, realizes that these inno...

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