The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory Bartrop Paul R.
The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory Bartrop Paul R. Paul R. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of…
Specifikacia The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory Bartrop Paul R.
The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory Bartrop Paul R.
Paul R. He shows that, following the Evian Conference of July 1938, Interior Minister John McEwen pledged a new policy of accepting 15,000 refugees (not specifically Jewish), but the bureaucracy cynically sought to restrict Jewish entry despite McEwen's lofty ambitions. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have an established refugee policy (as opposed to an immigration policy) until late 1938.
Moreover, the book considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior.The Holocaust and Australia grapples with how, when the Second World War broke out, questions of security were exploited as the means to further
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