War Refugee Board
The War Refugee Board (WRB), established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944, was a United States executive agency, with the stated purpose to aid civilian victims of the Axis powers during WWII. President Roosevelt acted after considerable pressure from his friend, the Jewish Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and his team at the Treasury, notably including the also Jewish and covert Soviet Communist agent Harry Dexter White. There were also pressure from various other influential Jewish individuals and organizations.
The WRB lobbied Roosevelt to publicly condemn the alleged mass murder of Jews, which he did on 24 March 1944.
WRB staff claimed that it saved tens of thousands of Jews. Others have claimed higher numbers. Wikipedia states that "It is difficult to determine the exact number of Jews rescued by the War Refugee Board, since so much of their work was done behind enemy lines and involved psychological warfare and other intangible rescue activities."
Nothing is stated on saving non-Jews, despite that many tens of millions of civilians died during the war.
The United States Treasury Department, under Morgenthau and White, has been argued to long have conducted an anti-German campaign and to have interfered in foreign policy. The War Refugee Board notably gave the official United States sanction to the influential Vrba-Wetzler report on Auschwitz in the form of a WRB report. Morgenthau had delegated all of the Treasury’s powers in the areas relevant to the WRB to the Communist agent White.[1]
See also
- Vrba-Wetzler report
- Harry Dexter White
- Morgenthau Plan
- Refugees: Refugees, the Holocaust, and White guilt
- The World Wars and mass starvation
- Writers' War Board
References
- ↑ Arthur R. Butz. The Hoax of the Twentieth Century—The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry http://codoh.com/library/book/3959/
