Evian Conference
The Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews, who were already persecuted by the Hitler regime, of their German citizenship. They were classified as "subjects" and became stateless in their own country. When Hitler annexed Austria in March 1938, and applied German racial laws ,the Jews of Austria also became stateless.
Hitler's expansion was accompanied by a rise in antisemitism and fascism across Europe and the Middle East. Antisemitic governments came to power in Hungary and Romania, where Jews had always been second-class citizens. The result was millions of Jews attempting to flee Europe, while they were perceived as an undesirable and socially damaging population with popular academic theories arguing that Jews damaged the "racial hygiene" or "eugenics" of nations where they were resident and engaged in conspirative behavior. In 1936, Chaim Weizmann (who decided not to attend the conference) declared that "the world seemed to be divided into two parts – those places where the Jews could not live and those where they could not enter.
The Evian conference was supposed to help the situation. Delegates from 32 countries and representatives from relief organizations met in Evian-les-Bains, a spa town in France, to discuss the German-Jewish refugees. The United States encouraged all countries to find long-term solutions to the problem. However, the United States and other countries were unwilling to ease their immigration restrictions. Most countries feared that an increase of refugees will cause further economic hardships. The conference ended a week later. With the exception of the tiny Dominican Republic, no country was willing to accept more refugees. One result of the conference is the establishment of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (ICR), which would continue to work on the refugee problem.
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