Military Engagements

Q:According to your reading, America’s failure to extend more effective help to European Jews “may have owed as much to a failure of moral imagination as to a lack of either empathy or means” (809). In your opinion, which of these three factors was the primary reason for America’s limited assistance?

A: In my opinion, America's failure to extend more effective help to European Jews because of the means. The American's tried to get German Jews from German discrimination and concentration camps by doing numerous things. President Roosevelt, sped up the visa project allowing them to migrate to the U.S. faster. Eleanor Roosevelt also founded the International Rescue Comittee in 1933 also making easier for German Jews to come to the U.S. However, when Hitler tightened his grip on all Germans, it made it harder for the Americans to help out. It was hard for Americans to get Jews out of the Nazi deathtrap. Therefore, I believe that it was the means that was detrimental to the Americans getting the Jews out of Nazi regime.