{"id":1303,"date":"2009-01-31T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2009-01-31T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T13:44:01","slug":"evian-not-just-infamous-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Evian &#8211; not just (in)famous for water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2009\/01\/holocaust_memorial_day.html\">an earlier posting<\/a>, I&#8217;m reading a book entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Nazi-Holocaust-Its-History-Meaning\/dp\/1845112016\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1233055205&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;The Nazi Holocaust: Its History And Meaning&#8221;<\/a>. I&#8217;m learning  a lot that I didn&#8217;t know.<br \/>\nFor instance, I was not familiar with the Evian Conference which was held from 6-15 July 1938. This was convened at the request of Franklin D Roosevelt to address the plight of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.<br \/>\nIt was attended by 32 countries &#8211; including the USA and the UK &#8211; and 24 voluntary organisations. Both the United States and Britain declined to admit significantly more refugees. Only The Netherlands and Denmark &#8211; soon to be overrun by the Germans &#8211; agreed to a limited increase in the number of refugees.<br \/>\nThe conference did not condemn the Nazis&#8217; treatment of the Jews in Germany and even went as far as to prepare a memorandum for the German Foreign Office acknowledging the right of the German government to introduce measures affecting its own subjects.<br \/>\nRonnie Landau &#8211; author of the book I&#8217;m reading &#8211; writes &#8220;In effect, the Evian Conference may have justified and reinforced Nazi anti-Jewish ideology and helped move it on towards its momentous climax &#8211; the decision to implement the &#8216;Final Solution'&#8221;.<br \/>\nFurther information on the conference <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89vian_Conference\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in an earlier posting, I&#8217;m reading a book entitled &#8220;The Nazi Holocaust: Its History And Meaning&#8221;. I&#8217;m learning a lot that I didn&#8217;t know. For instance, I was not familiar with the Evian Conference which was held from 6-15 July 1938. This was convened at the request of Franklin D Roosevelt to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}