Was there any response to Kristallnacht from the allies?

guitargoddess

Yes and no. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, did issue a statement condemning it, but at the same time the US did not change its stance on opening up immigration for Europe's Jews. Britain, in response to the pleas of British Jewish leaders, created the Kindertransport program for allowing in refugee children from Germany and German-controlled areas. Kristallnacht definitely outraged many individuals in North America and Western Europe, and hindered these countries' governments' relations with Germany, but nothing was really "done" about it. http://www.aish.com/ho/i/48957091.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht#Responses_to_Kristallnacht Apr 27 10, 7:34 PM

looney_tunes

As mentioned in the link above, Kristallnacht occurred in 1938. It therefore was before the time when the term 'allies' has real meaning - they weren't allies until they had started declaring and waging war, which did not occur until 1939, nearly a year later. In 1938 there were just a lot of anxious countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II Apr 27 10, 8:22 PM