Germany – German Jewish leader: Allies Didn’t Do Enough To Save Jews

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    Germany – A German Jewish leader says the Allies did not do enough to save European Jews during the Holocaust because they denied them entry through their borders. Charlotte Knobloch, president of Germany’s Council of Jews, made her remarks in response to a recent apology by US President George W Bush that the Allies did not bomb the Nazi’s transport access to Auschwitz.

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    Knobloch told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in an interview that the World War II victors totally failed on the issue of genocide, and not just militarily. She said Bush’s remarks were one-dimensional.

    “It was indeed the Americans who had the possibility, as did other countries, to save Jewish people,” Knobloch said in the interview published Friday.

    Knobloch, 75, said she could remember her childhood in the early 1940s, when she saw desperate people waiting in vain for visas to emigrate to the United States.

    Other countries like England and Switzerland also had the opportunity to rescue people, Knobloch said.

    Knobloch’s and Bush’s remarks stirred up a long-simmering debate.

    During his visit last week to the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, a teary-eyed Bush said the United States should have bombed rail access to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944.

    Knobloch said Bush had limited his vista to the military aspects, and had failed to see the human side of things.

    “One should have not only bombed the access routes, one should have used the opportunities beforehand to save thousands of people,” she said. [EWN]


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    “Is this the same President Bush who eagerly puts Isreal in danger for his own political gain?”

    As if past presidents did do exactly the same thing, notably Jimmy “The Dhimmi” Carter (who said Israel is a racist “apartheid” state) and Bill Clinton (who interfered in several Israeli elections to ensure that the pliant “dove” candidate would be elected Prime Minister and who had Arafat stay at the White House as his honored guest more than ANY other foreign leader during his term, while Bush absolutely refused to legitimize the dirty little bum by meeting with him)?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    Is this the same President Bush who eagerly puts Isreal in danger for his own political gain?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    “Anon. 10:01PM For the record. The Land Of Israel (Palestine) at that time was controlled by the British (Mandate).”

    It should be noted that the British effectively slammed the door shut on Jews going to Eretz Yisroel with the infamous White Paper of 1939 — adopted by the Brits to appease the Arabs after more than a decade of riots (including the 1929 Hebron pogrom), assassinations and other mayhem and trouble stirred up by the so-called “Grand Mufti,” Amin Al Haj Husseini, y’s (by the way, the uncle and early mentor of Yasser Arafat, y”s). With Palestine closed to them as a possible place of refuge, tens of thousands of Jews, if not more, who might have found sanctuary there could not and stayed in Europe and were killed.

    So any time some bleeding-heart pro-Palestinian liberal moron, or some Neturi Karta traitor snivels that the establishment of Israel on supposedly “Arab” land is somehow “unfair” because it “punishes” the Arabs who supposedly “played no role in the Holocaust”, they are FULL OF BALONEY.

    biGwheeel
    biGwheeel
    16 years ago

    Anon. 10:01PM For the record. The Land Of Israel (Palestine) at that time was controlled by the British (Mandate). Di kenst vaater zaan a Kanoue, ober fardrai nisht de Yoitzres. (and if you don’t understand the latter part [of the statement], please get yourself a translator). (Interperator, off de haimishe shprach).

    biGwheeel
    biGwheeel
    16 years ago

    It is wrong on MRS./MS. Knobloch’s part to criticize President Bush for his remarks. He did not make a political statement. He made a statement coming from the heart. He said that at the very least the Allies [including the British] could have bombed the access routes to Auschwitz. Furthermore, he wasn’t even alive during the battles of World War II, so how can he be expected to take personal responsibility for the actions [or a lack thereof] at that time?!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    You mean Israel which turned away thousands?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    16 years ago

    it is absolutely true.it can happen again.thank hashem for israel