re: #103 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Patton may have been a military genius, but his personal views were another matter entirely. Reading up on the history of postwar Europe is a real eye opener and the Allies’ response to the displaced persons issues were appalling.

Often, the DPs, many of them Jews were left to stay in the very concentration camps from which the Nazis were driven. Sometimes, the Allies put Germans in charge of Jewish DPs. Some DPs who sought to return to their homes, found nothing, or worse, were killed by those who remained.

Jews were dying all over Europe well after the end of WWII in displaced persons camps and immigration issues prevented resettlement elsewhere - and the one place where Jews wanted to go - Palestine - was off limits because the Brits didn’t allow them to enter under their White Paper, and the Arab ties (particularly the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) to the Nazis were minimized as well. Truman didn’t increase immigration quotas for Jews after WWII, the British didn’t want them, and they were busy trying to find some reason to send them elsewhere. Jews, having nearly been eradicated from Europe had no reason to trust anyone else with their security, and so they sought to go to the one place where they would be welcomed by their fellow Jews - Palestine.