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Der Brockhaus-Atlas. Die Welt in Bild und Karte, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus 1937At the Évian Conference, representatives from the Central American countries of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, [...]
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Refugee Crisis 1938
Exclusion, Deprivation of Rights, Expropriations Flee Germany – But Where To? Flight and [...]
President Roosevelt’s Way Out
The mass exodus of Jews from annexed Austria creates a difficult situation for US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Liberal and Jewish organizations call for the US to take in more refugees, but this is vehemently [...]
Preparations and Expectations
The Latin American countries that are dependent on the the United States quickly accept the American invitation to the refugee conference. With some skepticism and hesitation, the countries of Northern and Western [...]
Reactions to the November Terror
The images of brutal terror against Jews in Germany on November 9–10, 1938 shock the world. Many people become aware for the first time of just how precarious the situation of the Jewish population in the German [...]
Colombia
In the 1930s, the Liberal Party peacefully rises to power in the Colombian government for the first time in decades. Its labor reforms and efforts for women’s equality provoke fierce conflicts with the [...]
Mexico
After the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), which ended the authoritarian rule of Porfirio Díaz, Mexico sees itself as a worldly country and grants asylum to refugees, especially victims of political persecution in a [...]
United States of America
For more than a century after its founding, the United States of America allows nearly unlimited immigration and sees itself as a haven for the religiously and politically persecuted. At the end of the 19th century, [...]
United States of America
* 18 January 1874 Lyons, NY † 5 May 1959 New York, NYAfter studying law, Myron C. Taylor works as an attorney in the town of his birth. In 1900 he joins his brother’s Wall Street office, and specializes [...]
United States of America
* 29 November 1886 Coldwater, OH † 25 September 1964 White Plains, NYAfter studying history and political science at Indiana University, James McDonald teaches there and at other universities. Because of [...]
United States of America
* 13 March 1890 Wellesley, MA † 25 March 1981 Washington, DCAs a student at Harvard University, George Warren is already involved in homeless relief work. He takes a job with the American Red Cross after [...]
