The condition once stated, the question implied, the answer is
implicit: while Hitler systematically massacred the Jews of Europe,
the United States and Britain knew his intentions, knew when the
colossus of all crematoria at Auschwitz was completed, and until
January 1944, did nothing. In doing nothing they actively aided
Hitler who proclaimed their disregard as confirmation of his
policy; what he inferred Mr. Morse substantiates from State
Department records - in the period from August 1942 when the Allies
were alerted to the implementation of the "final solution" to the
creation of the War Refugee Board at the end of 1943 they were
immobilized by belief "that rescue was incompatible with (their)
principal war aims." Even more devastating - and indicative - was
their refusal to permit resettlement before incarceration; the
simple fact is that the vast numbers of Jews who might have been
saved from 1933 onward (when German persecution was authoritatively
and repeatedly reported) were not wanted in most of the world,
particularly not in the United States, not even twenty thousand
children. (Roosevelt helped kill this last proposal, only one of
many examples of his long inaction.) By 1944 time had run out for
most of the millions but the initiative of the War Rescue Board and
its collaborators saved several hundred thousand in little more
than a year - evidence that effort was not futile and the only
bright passage in the dismal history. To amass and compress this
comprehensive record (largely from official archives) was a
prodigious undertaking; if it is not widely read it will be less
because Mr. Morse's narrative style lacks finesse than because the
truth, well supported, is insupportable. (Kirkus Reviews)
Thirty years after its initial publication, Arthur D. Morse's While
Six Million Died still stands as one of the essential works on the
Holocaust. In his new introduction to this classic work, Herbert
Mitgang writes: "Reading and rereading Arthur Morse's
groundbreaking While Six Million Died, about the half-hidden and
apathetic American and Allied response to the Holocaust, the
thought occurred that many, many lives might have been saved had
the facts in this book been known to the public before and even
during the war".
First published in 1967, While Six Million Died revealed the
untold story behind the deliberate obstruction placed in the way of
attempts to save the Jewish people from Hitler's "final solution",
with detailed documentation from worldwide interviews with
participants, research in archives around the world, as well as
classified and official papers that had never been published before
Arthur Morse's exhaustive study. While the tragedy of the Holocaust
continues to be told by historians, novelists, filmmakers, and
others, no single volume has documented this dark period in its
historical relationship to America as thoroughly and passionately
as Arthur Morse's pioneering work.
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