soc.history.war.world-war-ii

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> Has anyone read "Exodus 1947" by Ruth Gerber? She was a reporter for
> the NY Herald Tribune and first to report from the Soviet Artic.
> During 1944, while working for Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
> Ickes, President Roosevelt sent Gruber on a secret mission to escort
> 1,000 WW2 refugees in a secret convoy across the Atlantic to America.
> This, in turn, led to her coverage of one of the worst incidents in
> Jewish history as well as the spark that launched the State of Israel.
> Gruber waited in Haifa on July 18, 1947 for the ship "Exodus 1947" to
> come in. But what she saw and captured on film was the most moving
> event in her life. The Royal Navy had rammed the ship of 4,500
> Holocaust survivors crammed into a former tourist vessel meant to hold
> no more than 400 passengers. They boarded her and fought these people,
> finally detaining them below deck in squalid conditions-

This is propaganda post. These people were "illegally" attempting to enter
Palestine. The conditions on board were the conditions they were already
in.

The war was over, the Germans defeated, the deaths camps destroyed.....also
by British troops would you believe. There was no reason for them to
illegally enter another country, all was fine in their own countries.

The influx of illegal Jews was upsetting the demographic balance of the area
and Jews (mainly immigrants from Europe) were shooting British soldiers in
Palestine.... you know those soldiers who defeated the anti-Semite Germans
and destroyed the death camps.

BTW, the British Army formed the Jewish Brigade during WW2 - the first time
since biblical times the Jews had been recognised as a separate racial
entity.