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At the Evian Conference 70 years ago the international community refused to include the German Jews persecuted by Hitler - historian waffen ss uniform that politicians from this learned too little.
Participants at the Conference in the chic French resort of Evian-les-Bains held back nicely. In July 1938, the international community decided on the fate of thousands of Jews who wanted to flee from Nazi Germany at Lake Geneva. But none wanted to interfere like in the internal affairs of the NAZI State.
At the Evian Conference was sealed the fate of thousands of Jews - because they could not flee, they died in the Nazi.
The Evian Conference is considered to be one of the most shameful of appeasement policy towards Adolf Hitler. Yet another truth this meeting at the luxury hotel was also: the willing to emigrate were not desired. But only the representative of Australia said plainly: "As we have no real Rassenproblem, we feel also no inclination to import one by a foreign mass immigration."
After the "Anschluss" of Austria in March 1938 and the antisemitic associated, as well as the looming NAZI terror, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt had suggested an International Conference to explore ways to help for Jewish emigrants. From 6 to 15 July advised the diplomats from 32 countries and representatives of dozens of Jewish aid organisations - and ultimately decided the establishment of an Intergovernmental Committee of the refugee.
But no one relaxed the conditions, no one was willing to increase its quota of immigrants. The 70.Jahrestag has now the Centre for research on antisemitism of the TU Berlin together with Pro Asyl and the Committee on human rights and humanitarian aid in the German Bundestag organised a meeting on the subject of 'Fortress Europe'. The historian and Director of the Center, Wolfgang Benz, is called the Conference in Evian "a historical disgrace to the civilized world".
Soon after the "Machtergreifung" 1933, the NAZI State had begun with the discrimination of Jewish citizens, whose emigration was accepted - but on the condition that all assets had to stay behind. The aim of the Nazis was, "the Jews as a beggar over the border to chase, because ever poorer immigrants, the greater the burden for the host country".
But already many Jews with leaving their homeland were reluctant to the pogroms of November 1938. Soon after a legal migration was no longer possible - at the end of the Calvary stood for most of the gas chambers.
The later Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who was in Evian, wrote in her memoirs: "sitting in this beautiful room, listening to how representatives of 32 States one after the other got up and said, how terribly like it more refugees would take and how terrible suffering it do them, that they unfortunately couldn't do that, was a harrowing experience."
Benz criticized in particular the "restrictive refugee policy" of the United States, which would have encouraged many other States in their attitude. "Bureaucratic obstacles, which were established by isolationist xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism by the American side played the ww2 uniforms role."
The nationalist observer commented triumphantly: "no one wants you!" The Western press found out quickly that Evian vice versa read the word was "naive".
"Hypocritical rhetoric"
Benz considers a comparison of Jewish refugees after 1933 with the current asylum situation allowed. However, the lessons of history are "little sustainable". While the fathers of the basic law had been formulated: politically persecuted enjoy asylum - however, as hardly another article the sentence had been watered down later by "Political formulas and legal clauses".
Also Heiko Kauffmann of Pro Asyl comes to a bitter conclusion: "Abuse of asylum" - this is been held also the NS persecuted. In Evian, the civilization have not passed their test, Kauffmann says. Today, with its concept of isolation and rejection, EU policy remember "fatal to the hypocritical humanitarian spawn and rhetoric of compassion and their but relentlessly tough in the defensive rate nazi for sale refugees 70 years ago".
But politicians are apparently little sensitive for history: in July 2005, a Conference in Evian met again. This time, it was the Interior Ministers of Britain, Spain, France, Italy and Germany. Its theme: "combating illegal immigration and the consequent return departure"
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