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It was 1939, right? 20 years before Fidel.
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"Federico Laredo Brú was the Cuban president when the war began. His only significant crisis related to the war before he left office in 1940 was the MS St. Louis affair. The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner that was carrying over 900 Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba. Upon her arrival in Havana, the Cuban government refused to allow the refugees to land because they did not have proper permits and visas. After ocean liner sailed north, the governments of both the United States and Canada also refused to accept the refugees and so the St. Louis sailed back across the Atlantic tand dropped the passengers off in Europe."
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It was 1939, right? 20 years before Fidel.Wiki:
"Federico Laredo Brú was the Cuban president when the war began. His only significant crisis related to the war before he left office in 1940 was the MS St. Louis affair. The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner that was carrying over 900 Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba. Upon her arrival in Havana, the Cuban government refused to allow the refugees to land because they did not have proper permits and visas. After ocean liner sailed north, the governments of both the United States and Canada also refused to accept the refugees and so the St. Louis sailed back across the Atlantic tand dropped the passengers off in Europe."
I hadn't realized that the massacre in Oradour took place in a city. The enormity of the crime, when I thought it was a village, is dwarfed by the reality of a much larger area.
When I visit a site that has been drenched with pain, from war or act of nature, I am unable to keep my emotions in check. The overwhelming sadness of the site seeps into my soul.
Thank you for researching these events. Without your book I might never have know their stories.