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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