In nature, when the habitat of a specific species is being jeopardized, the expectations are for them to flee away and pursue refuge. After Hitler’s Final Solution in which declared that “[the Jewish] group in particular was targeted for mass, systematic, and complete destruction,” (Milgram 9) a number of Jews, as expected, made the rational choice of escaping the massive threat of complete genocide. Some methods were to migrate to random European countries that did not have solid affairs with Germany; other methods, however, were to pursue the intelligent strategy of fleeing to distant places, such as South America and the United States. A group of 937 Jews who decided to hide in the Americas boarded in the transatlantic S.S. St. Louis on May 13, 1939 at Hamburg, Germany with the destination to Havana, Cuba. The transatlantic sailed urgently from Germany because of the fact that Jewish citizens desperately had to escape the Holocaust, encounter refuge, and a few passengers had a secret mission regarding the American military force.
It was July 18, 1925 when Adolf Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf" was initially published in Germany theorizing his plans for a futuristic prosperous nation where the Aryans - naturally white Germans - would peacefully live under the commands of the fascist leader in a place without "impure" people. Falling under this category of "impurity" were communists, socialists, mentally and physically disabled people, children, the elderly, homosexuals, criminals, nonconformists and principally the Jews. Hitler's plans changed from theory to practice in 1933 when the nation became the Third Reich, which relatively is commonly known as Nazi Germany.
The Third Reich was under Hitler's power, which resulted in t...
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This article documents the history behind the tragedy of S.S. St. Louis in which the Jews were literally confined in the transatlantic, without being able to stay nor return. The article is more centralized in detailing the facts of the trip and conveying the real background story of the occurrence by detailing some individual traumatic experiences from before, during, and after the trip.
"Voyage of the St. Louis." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust
Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 4 May 2014. .
This article describes events that happened when the S.S. St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany for Havana, Cuba. It documents the actions of both the American and Cuban governments towards the transatlantic packed with refugees who were Jews.