Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust
Monty Noam Penkower
The Jews Were Expendable
graphically demonstrates how disbelief, indifference, antisemitism, and, above
all, the political expediency of the West doomed a powerless European Jewry
to Hitler's "Final Solution." Penkower examines the foremost issues
of Holocaust diplomacy and charts the free world's tragic failure to respond
decisively to the Holocaust.
Grounded in an impressive array of primary sources,
the volume is a harsh reminder to the "cancer of bestiality."
"A tour de force . . . written in a dispassionate
yet vivid prose."
— American Jewish History
"This is major work and one upon which
all future studies of the Holocaust will rely. It is an impressive and
admirable achievement." — Richard Polenberg
2. The Patria and the Atlantic
3. The "Final Solution" Unveiled
4. The Bermuda Conference and Its Aftermath
5. The Creation of the U.S. War Refugee Board
6. Rescue from the Balkans
7. Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Martyrdom of Hungarian Jewry
8. The World Jewish Congress Confronts the International Red Cross
9. The Sternbuchs, Storch, and the Reichsführer SS
Epilogue: "Believe the Unbelievable!"
432 pages
1988 (1983 University of Illinois Press)
Winner of the B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation League Merit of Educational Distinction and Yeshiva University's Belkin Memorial Literary Award
