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Roosevelt Denounces Nazis
At his press conference five days after Kristallnacht, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that the attack had "deeply shocked" the American public. He ordered the US ambassador in Germany to return home as a sign of protest and allowed 12,000 Germans -- most of them Jews -- who were temporarily in the United States to remain indefinitely.
"I cannot, in any decent humanity, throw them out," he explained to reporters. But Roosevelt also said that US immigration quotas would not be changed to admit more Jewish refugees. |