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Churchill faced nothing but obstruction from Parliament and even his own Cabinet regarding resolving the issue of Jewish
refugees. But Churchill wasn’t a dictator, so he was often overruled on matters that were not strategic military decisions. Nevertheless, he persisted in instructing against refusing entry of Jews to Palestine.
Churchill demonstrated sympathies towards the Jewish people very clearly during the wartime years. For example, he pushed for the arming of Jews in Palestine, but was blocked by his Cabinet. By 1941, Churchill was taking steps to prevent the 1939 White Paper’s goal of an Arab majority in Palestine, even defending illegal immigration. Eventually, in 1943, Churchill was able to effect change in British policy and enabled several thousand Jews to enter the Mandate of Palestine from the Balkans, irrespective of quotas and in 1944 he gained government support for the establishment of a military contingent of Jews from Palestine.
Before this, in 1942, soon after the mass deportations to the extermination camps were underway, Churchill declared before the House of Commons on 8 September that the Nazis were engaged in “the most bestial, the most squalid and the most senseless of all their offences.... This tragedy fills me with
astonishment as well as with indignation,
and it illustrates as nothing else can the utter degradation of the Nazi nature and theme.” Churchill famously promised, “When the hour of liberation strikes in Europe, as strike it will, it will also be the hour of retribution.”
Churchill followed this speech with a letter dated 29 October 1942 to William Temple,
the then Archbishop of Canterbury: “The systematic cruelties to which the Jewish people—men, women, and children—have been exposed under the Nazi regime are amongst the most terrible events in history, and place an indelible stain upon all who perpetrate and instigate them. Free men and women denounce these vile crimes, and when this world struggle ends with the enthronement of human rights, racial persecution will be ended.”
When Churchill received reports of the nature of the Auschwitz extermination camps in June 1944, Churchill immediately told his Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden: “There is no doubt that this is probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world, and it has been done by scientific machinery by nominally civilized men in the name of a great State and one of the leading races in Europe....It is quite clear that all concerned in this crime who may fall into our hands, including the people who only obeyed orders by carrying out the
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