Chapter One
THE HISTORIOGRAPHY
OF RESCUE
There can be few subjects in the whole range of modern history on which
contemporary opinion differed so sharply from the views of later
historians and authors than the topic of the rescue of Jews by the
democracies during the Nazi Holocaust. During the Second World War, Jews
(and non Jewish anti Nazis) looked upon the celebrated leaders of the
great democracies at war with Nazi Germany Winston Churchill and Franklin
D. Roosevelt as the heads of the armies of liberation which would free
the whole world, and the Jewish people in particular, from the Nazi
scourge. In December 1944, Joseph Hertz, the British Chief Rabbi, issued a
birthday message to Winston Churchill which read:
Bu ...
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