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PART III OF A SIX-DAY SERIES
ALL TALK AND ZERO ACTION: THIRTY TWO NATIONS MEET AT THE 1938 EVIAN CONFERENCE AND FAIL TO PREVENT THE HOLOCAUST.
Even as violence against Jews in Nazi Germany before WWII escalated to extermination from street riots, boycotts of businesses, removal of Jews from professions, and racial Nuremberg Laws, it did not provoke the Jewish exodus that Hitler expected. Securing refuge in foreign lands was hindered by the apathy of nations to accept Jewish refugees. Many countries allied to or dependent on Germany even enacted their own versions of the Nuremberg Laws. By 1941, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Vichy France, and Croatia had all issued an