Paper walls: America and the refugee crisis 1938-1941
TitlePaper walls: America and the refugee crisis 1938-1941
Author
Call number940.53180973/0016
Object number03951
Place of publicationAmherst, Massachusetts, United States
PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press
Year of publication
1968
Physical description306p.,index, bibliography
MaterialBook
Description
A well-documented critical study of US immigration and refugee policies in the years before the United States entered WWII. The failure to admit Jewish refugees, particularly German-Jewish refugees added to the eventual catastrophe in Europe. While critical of American policy, the author also provides materials on the social and economic pressures against unlimited immigration to a country hardly recovered from the Great Depression