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Atrocities perpetrated against civilians wasn't a concern. It got retconned into our national consciousness, and sending refugees back demonstrates that thoroug
by eyelidlessness 4y ago
Atrocities perpetrated against civilians wasn't a concern. It got retconned into our national consciousness, and sending refugees back demonstrates that thoroughly. The rest of what you say is right though.
- jacobolus 4y agoFrom what I can tell people in the US were not happy about cities in Britain getting bombed, France being conquered, etc. Disclaimer: I am not an expert in contemporary American understanding of WWII.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoOh, that’s fair and you’re right, they did care about those kinds of atrocities. Edit because I’m exhausted and not being mindful about finishing thoughts, I didn’t mean this to be fighting words so much as clarifying words: they cared about mass attacks on civilians in some cases but not others. Bombings of allied cities was absolutely a concern. Mass murder or German and mostly eastern European Jews wasn’t such a concern. There wasn’t any such reaction to sending Jewish refugees back to be murdered. The whole concept of actually caring about nazi atrocities on the scale they they committed them, to the victims they were committed against, was a retroactive set of moral concerns. And that’s unsurprising given that the US was the primary inspiration for those atrocities.