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The [[Emergency Rescue Committee]] was formed in 1940 to help political refugees from Nazism who had fled to Vichy France during the German invasion of that country. It was supported by a number of prominent progressives in the United States. It merged into the [[International Rescue Committee]] in 1940.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.248.</ref>
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The [[Emergency Rescue Committee]] was formed in 1940 to help political refugees from Nazism who had fled to Vichy France during the German invasion of that country. It was supported by a number of prominent progressives in the United States. It merged into the [[International Rescue Committee]] in 1942.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.248.</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
==People==
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*[[Karl Frank]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.243.</ref>
 
*[[Karl Frank]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.243.</ref>
 
*[[Joseph Buttinger]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.241.</ref>
 
*[[Joseph Buttinger]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.241.</ref>
*[[Reinhold Neibuhr]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.245.</ref>
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*[[Reinhold Niebuhr]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.245.</ref>
 
*[[Harold Oram]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.14.</ref>
 
*[[Harold Oram]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.14.</ref>
*[[Varian Fry]] - European represenative.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15.</ref>
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*[[Varian Fry]] - European representative.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15.</ref>
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*[[David Seiferheld]]<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.</ref>
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==External Resources==
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*Mary Jayne Gold, [http://www.varianfry.org/gold_cm_book_en.htm Crossroads Marseille 1940], 1980, Varian Fry institute.
  
 
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==Notes==

Latest revision as of 18:03, 7 July 2012

The Emergency Rescue Committee was formed in 1940 to help political refugees from Nazism who had fled to Vichy France during the German invasion of that country. It was supported by a number of prominent progressives in the United States. It merged into the International Rescue Committee in 1942.[1]

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Notes

  1. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.248.
  2. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.243.
  3. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.241.
  4. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.245.
  5. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.14.
  6. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15.
  7. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.