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Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, Fdr, and the Jews of Sosúa

Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, Fdr, and the Jews of Sosúa

Wells, Allen

Paperback

Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0822344076
ISBN13: 9780822344070
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 12 2009
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Seven hundred and fifty Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and founded the agricultural settlement of Sosúa in the Dominican Republic, then ruled by one of Latin America's most repressive dictators, General Rafael Trujillo. In Tropical Zion, Allen Wells, a distinguished historian and the son of a Sosúa settler, tells the compelling story of General Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and those fortunate pioneers who founded a successful employee-owned dairy cooperative on the north shore of the island.

Why did a dictator admit these desperate refugees when so few nations would accept those fleeing fascism? Eager to mollify international critics after his army had massacred 15,000 unarmed Haitians, Trujillo sent representatives to Évian, France, in July, 1938 for a conference on refugees from Nazism. Proposed by FDR to deflect criticism from his administration's restrictive immigration policies, the Évian Conference proved an abject failure. The Dominican Republic was the only nation that agreed to open its doors. Obsessed with stemming the tide of Haitian migration across his nation's border, the opportunistic Trujillo sought to whiten the Dominican populace, welcoming Jewish refugees who were themselves subject to racist scorn in Europe.

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