US accepts Jewish refugees from Europe in 1930s-40s?

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IOTL the US public strongly opposed taking Jewish refugees from the Nazis pre-war, but what if the FDR administration got them to take Jewish refugees from Europe before, during, and after the war? I mean if they offer to accept Jews from Poland and all that as a means to rescue them from the Nazis after the Germans invade. I doubt the Nazis could change their plans for the Jewish population in the USSR due to political reasoning, but for the Jews of Central and Western Europe they send to the US, with Britain allowing them to get through the blockade. What impact would that have on Europe and the US? How about after the war? Also how would it be possible to get the US to get over its anti-semitism to allow that?
 
IOTL the US public strongly opposed taking Jewish refugees from the Nazis pre-war, but what if the FDR administration got them to take Jewish refugees from Europe before, during, and after the war? I mean if they offer to accept Jews from Poland and all that as a means to rescue them from the Nazis after the Germans invade. I doubt the Nazis could change their plans for the Jewish population in the USSR due to political reasoning, but for the Jews of Central and Western Europe they send to the US, with Britain allowing them to get through the blockade. What impact would that have on Europe and the US? How about after the war? Also how would it be possible to get the US to get over its anti-semitism to allow that?

How are you going to do that?
Why would FDR 'waste' political capital on allowing Jews to come to the US? Was there ANYONE who was pushing for allowing more Jews in? At least with increasing the military and preparing for war against Germany, he had some support behind him, if not very much at times.

Anti-semitism was hardly unique to Germany, remember.
 
Sadly absent ASB action this won't happen. whatever FDR's personal feeling on this, the USA was simply not going to do this. As was noted the State Department did everything it could to prevent Jews from being accepted anywhere in the Western hemisphere. Even without antisemitism, which was as prevalent as Jim Crow, accepting large numbers of immigrants over and above the established quotas during the Depression would be problematic - where would they be employed, how would they be supported when "real" Americans were unemployed and on welfare. After the start of WWII, opening the doors for refugees would only work for a small number of Jews as those in Nazi occupied territories had no way to leave. The only deal the Nazis offered was the exploring a "trucks for Jews" deal, which the US was not to support because of the cost and also at that point they were fighting Germany (this was 1944) and even this deal was only exploratory.

To save large numbers of Jews the Americans would have needed to allow Jews in to the US or other western hemisphere destinations before September, 1939 and continued this policy during the war for fortunate escapees. Don't forget the British could have opened up Palestine, or even assisted in emigration to Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand - let alone the UK proper.

BTW even after WWII and the Holocaust it was as easier or easier for a German war bride to get in to the USA compared to a Jewish concentration camp survivor.
 
If you want Jewish emigration then your best bet is probably the Dominican Republic, Trujillo offered to take between 50,000 and 100,000 refugees but with the stipulation that they had to become farmers for which they were provided land, livestock, mules, and horses. By the time things were organised though the war had started so very few were able to make it.
 
If you want Jewish emigration then your best bet is probably the Dominican Republic, Trujillo offered to take between 50,000 and 100,000 refugees but with the stipulation that they had to become farmers for which they were provided land, livestock, mules, and horses. By the time things were organised though the war had started so very few were able to make it.

Agreed, but you'd really need to find a way to accelerate Trujillo's domination of the DR's economy by roughly a decade. In OTL post-war he had changed his tune and was willing to take in any and all Jews provided the JDC was willing to help. This, coupled with the US looking the other way and ignoring the supposed "5th column threat" that prevented more Jewish immigration to the DR in OTL could result in substantially more Jews immigrating in TTL.
 

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This actually brings up something that is frequently brought up in AH scenarios about Hitler/Nazi Germany invading the US at some point. Its frequently noted that he had no reason ,no motivation to do so. But what about getting to the large Jewish population that was in the US OTL ? In a scenario like this where even more Jews came to the US wouldn't the motivation be even greater ?
 
While Hitler might want to get to the USA to finish cleaning out Jews, assuming a "Nazis win" scenario where they have neutralized the UK, annexed bits of Western Europe and installed puppet regimes in France, Norway, etc, and occupied the USSR at least as far as east of Moscow (and this is 99.99% ASB) it would take the Germans DECADES to absorb and organize their Großdeutschland and hegemony in Europe before they could consider devoting adequate resources to invade the USA conventionally even given some friendly countries in South/Central America as staging areas. Again, absent ASBs, the USA will have atomic weapons, and the Germans probably will as well so now you have a cold war standoff like OTL. So, IMHO, absent ASBs, what Hitler and his successors might want is one thing, what they can do is another.
 
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