HIST 295 Lecture Notes - English Canada, Ernest Lapointe, Yorkshire Carnegie
28 Nov 2012
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The only way to save the jews was to win the war. 1942 the allies sternly warned germany that the genocide must stop so we cannot claim ignorance. Dominican republic at the evian conference (1938: wanted to do two things. Only wants to take jews between the ages of 18-40 (marriageable age) Did the wrong thing for all the wrong reasons during the evian conference (1938: meant to address the jewish refugee crisis, pm thought canada should not act on humanitarian grounds only act with political intention. He read the canadian public as not wanting jews. Anti-semitic values became evident in immigration services. Blaire (head of immigration), a christian, compared jews trying to get into the country to hogs at feeding time at the support of his political superiors and both the english and the. Jewish politician: put forward the ontario racial anti-discrimination act in 1944.
