"In 1933 the Third Reich enacted the first of its discriminatory laws against the 550,000 Jews in Germany. Could the legal rights of the German Jews have been defended? The important Jewish bodies were alarmed and determined not to accept the new situation. Included were the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee, the Joint Foreign Committee of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association, and the French Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Comité des Délégations Juives in Paris. Unfortunately and despite the obvious dangers, these bodies were unable to rise above their differences in...