International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939

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24 - International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Jonathan Wiesen

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Mark Roseman and

Dan Stone

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Mark Roseman: Affiliation:
Indiana University
Dan Stone: Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London

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This chapter shows how foreign observers sometimes condemned and sometimes endorsed the Nazi regime’s anti-Jewish policies in the years before the Second World War, and in turn how the Third Reich responded to global opinion. The Nazis encountered international outrage in the face of their anti-Jewish policies. But they also found imitators and supporters around the world, including in the USA, who applauded Hitler’s efforts to solve the “Jewish question.” As the 1930s proceeded, global condemnation of Hitler’s antisemitism grew, but the Nazi regime rightly came to see expressions of outrage as largely toothless, as the international community appeared either unwilling or incapable of organizing collective action to save Europe’s Jews.

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Antisemitism comparative racism boycotts Kristallnacht Evian Conference Franklin Delano Roosevelt W. E. B. Du Bois William Dudley Pelley refugees Ku Klux Klan

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 502 - 522

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913614.027 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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