Question

During the Great Depression, why did countries not welcome Jews trying to leave Germany and Austria?

Answer 1

During the Great Depression, which originated with the Crash of 1929, there was the most important economic crisis in the history of the United States. This crisis had a great impact on the rest of the most important economies in the world, such as Europe and Japan.

At the same time, the rise of Nazism to power was taking place in Germany. This caused thousands of Jews and members of other minorities to seek to leave Germany and Austria, looking for safe areas to relocate. But many of these areas where Jews sought to escape were mired in the crisis, so the arrival of these immigrant groups was not well accepted, since it added labor demand in places where work was scarce.

Answer 2

The idea of protecting jobs since they were scarce hence the combination of anti-semitism and protectionism helped to stoke the fires of anti-immigration and antisemitic groups. This led to political pressure to tighten immigration quotas reason been the protection of jobs. This quota favored immigration from northern European countries and from groups that did not include Jews.

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