Friday, June 5, 2015
Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to Britain, said in 1938 that the answer to the Jewish problem was to "Ship them to Africa."
Joseph
Kennedy was the American ambassador to the Court of St. James during
Kristalnacht, a reaction against the assassination of Ernst vom
Rath. Rath was murdered by a 17 year old Jew who went to the
German Embassy in Fance in a rage and shot the first German he saw,
as a political act to avenge the persecution of his family and
German Jews in general. Germans shattered Jewish shop windows
and burned synogogues and rounded up thousands of Jews who were put
into concentration camps.
This made it hard for Kennedy to continue to support Hitler. Up until this time, Kennedy had advised the president not to listen to drunken warmonger, Winston Churchill. He had supported the peace pact agreed to by Hitler and Neville Chamberlain. Kennedy's solution to the Jewish problem was ship all German Jews to Africa and other places in the Western Hemisphere under the joint administration of Britain and the United States.