How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to
resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews? In
contrast to recent writers who place the blame on anti-Semitism in
American society at large and within the Roosevelt administration
in particular, Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut seek the answer
in a detailed analysis of American political realities and
bureaucratic processes. Drawing on exhaustive archival research,
the authors describe and analyze American immigration policy as
well as rescue and relief efforts directed toward European Jewry
between 1933 and 1945. They contend that U.S. policy was the
product of preexisting restrictive immigration laws; an entrenched
State Department bureaucracy committed to a narrow defense of
American interests; public opposition to any increase in
immigration; and the reluctance of Franklin D. Roosevelt to accept
the political risks of humanitarian measures to benefit the
European Jews. The authors find that the bureaucrats who made and
implemented refugee policy were motivated by institutional
priorities and reluctance to take risks, rather than by moral or
humanitarian concerns.
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