Beyond Belief
“At the same time that the Nazi assault on Europe was losing momentum, the campaign against the Jews proceeded with even greater ferocity. Leland Harrison, the American Consul in Bern, Switzerland, wrote to the State Department that the German commitment to “total warfare has not pushed doctrine [of antisemitism] aside,” but instead “renewed emphasis [is] placed” on it.1 Articles in the American press firmly indicated that the pace of the Final Solution had not abated.2 Jewish communities that h...ad previously seemed fairly secure were now reported to be in great danger. The reports of ghettoization and deportations were accompanied by stories of Jewish communities which had disappeared in their entirety. Some communities—Danish Jewry, most notably—were miraculously rescued, but generally communities were reported by the press to be either “virtually wiped out,” as in Greece, or on the verge of destruction. The Jewish community of Rome, which had survived for so long despite the fact that Italy was Germany’s chief ally, now faced deportation.MoreLess
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