Evian Conference Gave Adolf Hitler the Green Light

Green light to do whatever he pleases to the Jews in greater Germany (Germany proper + Austria) … or to all Jews under German control, for that matter. Green light because the (in)famous, shameful (disgraceful even) and disgusting Evian Conference proved beyond the reasonable doubt to the whole world that no one cared a rat’s ass (pardon my French) about the Jews… anywhere.

Nazis did care about the opinion outside of its borders so the tacit approval of any Jewish policy they wished to enact (no matter how criminal) became a major step on the Road to Holocaust – and a heavy slab in the “slab stack” that triggered the Holocaust Avalanche and killed four million Jews.

The ;vian Conference was quite long: it lasted for ten consecutive days in the middle of July of 1938. It was convened at resort and spa town ;vian-les-Bains (hence its name) on the shores of Lake Geneva on the French-Swiss border.

Its objective was (ostensibly) to “address the problem of German and Austrian Jewish refugees wishing to flee persecution in now Greater Germany. The real objective, however, was quite different.

;vian Conference was convened on the initiative of Roosevelt who ostensibly hoped to obtain commitments from some of the invited nations to accept more refugees, although he took pains to avoid stating that objective expressly. In reality, he had no such desire – he only wanted to deflect attention and criticism of his policy that severely limited the number of Jewish refugees admitted to the USA.

The conference was attended by representatives from 32 countries, and 24 charitable organizations attended as observers. Adolf Hitler stated that if other nations agreed to take the Jews, he would help them leave… but no one agreed.

Aside from the Dominican Republic and later Costa Rica, no other country agreed to accept the Jewish refugees fleeing the Third Reich. The conference thus inadvertently proved to be a useful tool for the Nazi propaganda that stated again and again that no country wants to accept those “filthy Jews”.

Zionists (predictably) were not very helpful either – they publicly stated that “if the conference were to lead to a mass emigration to places other than Palestine, the Zionist leaders were not particularly interested in its work“. Not helpful to the Jews – but very, very helpful to the Nazis.

The sad (and shameful) reality was that if each nation at Evian had agreed on that day to take in 17,000 Jews, every Jew in the Reich could have been saved. But they did not – and over 230,000 German and Austrian Jews were killed.