title: No Haven for the Oppressed: United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945
author:  Saul S Friedman 
description: No Haven for the Oppressed is the most thorough and the most comprehensive analysis to be written to date on the United States policy toward Jewish refugees during World War II.
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  Useful Enemies
  
  
  John Demjanjuk and America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals
  
  
  Richard Rashke
  
  
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  _To Paula_
  
  
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  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  _Anywhere But Here_
  
  
  By all standards of fairness, the U.S. record on World War II refugees is
  embarrassing for a country that prides itself on its generosity. Beginning
  with the Evian Conference in 1938 and culminating in the Displaced Persons Act
  of 1948, the United States was blatantly selfish, timid, callous, and
  discriminatory. It is a chapter of history that Americans would prefer to
  leave resting in the coffin of ancient history.
  
  
  If the United States was slow to admit World War II refugees from Europe, it
  was a tortoise in the hunt to find and expel thousands of former Nazis and
  Nazi collaborators hiding among the 400,000–500,000 refugees it had been
  shamed into accepting. American sentime