Jewish Emigration Quotes
This is the first statement of a Jewish nation since Biblical Times.
Kissinger and Nixon had just had a meeting with Golda Meir, the Israeli Prime Minister who had asked them to support the right of Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. Kissinger himself was Jewish and Nixon’s closest confidant about world affairs. It is not clear whether or not this was another example of Kissinger pandering to Nixon’s prejudices which he did often. See {621138} for Nixon’s reply. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released.
He was an intellectual precursor of the Nazi movement. He was also one of Hitler's favorite authors. See {77545}.
His belief and that of a great number of peop[le who have studied the era was that the refusal of most countries, including the United States, to accept Jewish Refugees casueing so many to remain in Europe where they were murdered by the Nazis would have been mitgated if there were a nation that would welcome them/ While that was true certainly for the early years of the Nazi persecution, the largest number of Jews were killed when the Germans overran Poland, France, Hungary, and many other countries including Eastern Europe and Russia. But there are other scholars who believe that the Nazi hatred and feal fo Jews was so great that they would not have allowed the Jews to be gone. While namy Jews woulld have been saved were Israel in existance, there would still have been a Holocaust, only one of smaller proportions they argue.
