If we as legislators are to discharge our public duties responsibly. we must develop an understanding of the evil of the Holocaust. and how many countries. including our own. responded at a time civilization was so violently challenged. In the process of preparing reports on others. the United States has an obligation to look at its own record during the war. We have reason to take pride in the great sacrifices of American Armed Forces in combatting the Wehrmacht. but we also must remember that we did not open our doors to Jewish refugees during the war. even after our leadership had learned that Hitler had marked European Jews for extermination. We accepted only 21.000 Jewish refugees during the war. fewer than Switzerland in absolute terms. and fewer per capita than most other neutral countries. In this context. one of the issues which remains unresolved and which H.R. 3662 is specifically designed to address is that of assets of Holocaust victims which may have been located in the United States. In the years following World War II.
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