World+Response+to+the+Holocaust

=World Response to the Holocaust= United States -The U.S. State Department delayed publicizing reports of genocide -Failed to act decisively to rescue victims of the Holocaust -On April 19, 1943, U.S. and British representatives met in Bermuda to find solutions to wartime refugee problems -U.S. authorities did not initiate any action aimed at rescuing refugees until 1944, when Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board -Refused to send food packages to Jews in camps and ghettoes but allowed the sending of similar packages to Greek citizens whose nation was being occupied

Germany -German military's General Staff small pockets of opposition to the Nazi regime existed -German military's General Staff also attempted to assassinate Hitler -Individual German theologians such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer opposed the regime

France -General Charles de Gaulle advocated open resistance against the collaborationist Vichy regime

Denmark -A resistance movement began operations there with activities including killing informers, raiding German military facilities, and sabotaging rail lines

Dutch Population -Mounted a general strike in protest against arrests and brutal treatment of Jews

All Countries Across Europe -Underground resistance movements supplied forged documents to those in danger or arranged for safe hiding places or escape routes

Soviet Union -Guerrilla fighters, called partisans, offered armed resistance and engaged in anti-Nazi sabotage -In May 1942, Czech agents assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia -The Polish Home Army began a revolt -Slovak partisans launched an armed struggle (the Slovak national uprising) against the pro-German Hlinka government

//"The United Nations has made it clear that they will pursue the guilty and deliver them up in order that Justice be done. It is therefore fitting that we should again proclaim our determination that none who participate in these acts of savagery shall go unpunished."// -President Roosevelt

Rosen, Robert N. __Saving the Jews Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust__. New York: Thunder's Mouth P, 2006. (Book)

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[] [|America and the Holocaust] Deborah E. Lipstadt [|Modern Judaism], Vol. 10, No. 3, Review of Developments in Modern Jewish Studies, Part 1 (Oct., 1990), pp. 283-296 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable URL: [] (Journal)