The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945

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Pantheon Books, 1984 - History - 444 pages
In his landmark work, author David S. Wyman contends that a substantial commitment to rescue Jewish people on the part of the United States almost certainly could have saved several hundred thousand of the Nazis' victims. This reissued edition contains a new Afterword by Wyman addressing the controversy his work has aroused.

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A PLAN TO EXTERMINATE ALL JEWS
17
The Worst Is Confirmed
42
First Steps
61
Copyright

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About the author (1984)

David Sword Wyman was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts on March 6, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Boston University in 1951, a master's degree in education from Plymouth State College in New Hampshire in 1961, and a doctorate in history at Harvard University in 1966. He taught history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1966 until his retirement in 1991. He wrote several books including Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941 and The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. In 2013, scholars and others inspired by his book founded the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D. C. Wyman died on March 14, 2018 at the age of 89.

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