Papers Monthly

Did the

Western World do enough for the Jews in the Holocaust

\"When they came for the gypsies, I did not speak, for I am

not a gypsy. When they came for the Jews, I did not speak,

because I wasn’t a Jew. When they came for the Catholics,

I did not speak, for I am not a Catholic. And when they

came for me, there was no one left to speak.\" -On the Wall

at the Holocaust Museum in Washington It is impossible to

learn about the Holocaust and the Second World War

without the question of how it possibly could have happened

arising, and along with that question comes another. The

question of whether or not the Western World did enough to

help the Jews in Europe. What was their reaction to the

campaign of systematic persecution, robbery and murder the

Third Reich inflicted upon the Jewish people? During the

time leading up to the outbreak of World War II, the

Western Press consistently carried numerous reports of the

German’s anti-Jewish policies and their purposeful......

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