In the United States, Americans were wrestling with the ravages of the Great Depression. With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant sentiment in most political circles. ... It was in this context that the democratic world, led by the United States, was faced with a refugee problem that it was morally bound to deal with. ... Even Hitler commented with bitter sarcasm regarding Western hypocrisy, "It is a shameful example to observe today how the entire democratic world dissolves in tears of pity,...

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