Please note that the author of While Six Million Died is Arthur D. Morse, not John
Gardner
BW
 
Bill Wagner wrote:
 
> There are thousands of books about the WWII, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in
> general, which goes back far before HItler.  The book While Six-Million Died by
> John Gardner is a very thorough documentation of  the world's reaction to the
> plight of Jews trying to flee the Nazis.  If memory serves correctly, France was
> the most liberal in opening its borders to Jewish refugees, but most fell back
> into Hitler's hands when France fell.
>
> Another book that stands out in my memory is Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte (sp?), who
> was conscripted (he claims) to serve as a diplomatic attaché to Mussolini.  I
> don't remember any mention of Pound, but the insights into the workings of the
> fascist state & it's relations to the other Axis powers is worth reading.
>
> sshulman wrote:
>
> > Having litle desire to delve into Poundian politics, at this juncture,
> > I should like, however, to comment on the political/historical myth of,
> > 'The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews
> > >From The Nazis'.
> > Canada's motto toward Jews during WWII, was, "none is too many", FDR's
> > advisors found certain dollar sums per Jew, too high a ransom and it was
> > British troops, who refused ships carrying European Jews, entry to
> > Palestine.
> > Shall we continue, 'democracy' by 'democracy'?
> >
> > Leon Surette wrote:
> > >
> > >         I have refrained from participating in the thread on Pound and
> > > anti-Semitism which has bee ngoing on for some weeks or months now because
> > > it did not seem to me that people were interested in informing themselves on
> > > the topic so much as they were concerned to vent their own settled views on
> > > the matter.
> > >         But let me recommend two very well informed and measured discussions
> > > of the matter: Albert S. Lindemann,_ Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and
> > > the Rise of the Jews_, Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1997; and William D.
> > > Rubinstein, _The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies could not have Saved
> > > mor Jews from the Nazis_, New York: Routledg 1997. These two books provide
> > > an excellent survey of recent literature on anti_Semitism and the Holocaust
> > > as well as offering their own analysis of the issue.
> > >
> > >         As for Pound, I have forthcoming from Illinois UP _Pound in
> > > Purgatory: From economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism_. In that book I
> > > carefully examine Pound unpublished letters and ephemeral journalism with a
> > > view to gaining a better understanding of his economic opinions. Incidental
> > > to that research I found a very clear shift on Pound's part from the casual
> > > anti-Semitism of his class to the full-blown racism and conspiracy theory
> > > evinced in the Rome broadcasts and the Agresti correspondence editeddby
> > > Demetres Tryphonopoulos and me. There is little doubt that Pound's
> > > preoccupation with economics and politics after 1933 was motivated by his
> > > outrage at the Great Depression. But that outrage did not express itself as
> > > anti-Semitism until he read an anti-Semitic article by William Pelley.
> > > Ironically, the journal in which it appeard was sent to Pound by Louis
> > > Zukofsky--as an example of the ludicrous exaggerations of extreme right-wing
> > > American opinion. Unfortunately Pound was sufficiently impressed by Pelley's
> > > article that he set William Drummond to research the "Jewish problem," and
> > > also sought out allies of Pelley--most importantly the German-American
> > > Gesellite and anti-Semite, Hugo Fack.
> > >
> > > Leon Surette