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irisblue

(32,981 posts) Fri Jan 27, 2017, 07:37 PM Jan 2017

painful stupid dangerous ironically blot against this country and time is sleeping in the WH.

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International Holocaust Remberance Day and "We don't want them here" (Original Post) irisblue Jan 2017 OP

The irony is almost overwhelming in light of the fact The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #1

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1. The irony is almost overwhelming in light of the fact

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 07:48 PM

Jan 2017

that during WWII our State Department turned away thousands of Hewish refugees from Germany on the supposition that they might be Nazi spies. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-government-turned-away-thousands-jewish-refugees-fearing-they-were-nazi-spies-180957324/