Talk:Évian Conference
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I will expand the list, and other information, later, it takes some time. Kraxler 19:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
It's done. Anybody who could contribute with more information, feel free to edit. Kraxler 18:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List of attendees
I have rearranged this into alphabetical order as I think it makes it easier to scan for a particular country. I listed the Republic of Ireland as beginning with "I" rather than "R" as this generally seems to be the accepted convention. Hope you agree otherwise feel free to change it back to how it was before. I would like to add that I found it to be an interesting article and not something that I've seen mentioned before for some reason. IrishPete 23:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
In the article it is stated that the AUSTRIAN delegate said, that his country would not like to import a racial problem by leting German Jews immigrate. I think this is a misprint: it should mean AUSTRALIAN delegate as far as I know. By the time of the conference July 1938 there was no Austria as an independent state anymore: it had been annexed by Germany 5 months earlier and had gone through a very violent perod of submission under Nazi-German law and proceedings. Certainly there was no independent AUSTRIAN delegate allowed to take part. And it would just not make sense to let German Jews "emigrate" to another part of Nazi-Germany. The new masters of Austria had set up an office in Vienna which issued "J" branded passports(J for Jude = Jew) for those who were willing to leave all their property to the Nazis. But only those who could get visas were able to emigrate. So it just does not make sense that an Austian delegate said that. banhdaya —Preceding unsigned comment added by Banhdaya (talk • contribs) 10:26, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] POV question
I'm just wondering whether the use of the word problem in the lead sentence is completely NPOV. It currently reads:
- The Évian Conference was convened at the initiative of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in July, 1938 to discuss the problem of Jewish refugees.
If others feel the same and don't want to rewrite it, I'd be happy to give it a try. Changing problem to question might be a simple solution.
This webpage [1] puts the word in quotation marks, suggesting that they have a concern over it, although that doesn't necessarily mean it's out of place here.
Sidefall (talk) 11:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
