Question

What is Wiesel trying to do in this passage?
A. Ask why the United States didn't send more troops to Germany
B. Provide evidence that a thousand Jews were killed on the St. Louis
C. Show an example of the United States' indifference to the plight of the Jews
D. Offer his sympathies on the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Answer 1

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The depressing tale of the St. Louis is a case in point. Sixty years ago, its human cargo nearly 1,000 Jews was turned back to Nazi Germany. And that happened after the Kristallnacht, after the first state sponsored pogrom, with hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put in concentration camps. And that ship, which was already in the shores of the United States, was sent back. I don't understand. Roosevelt was a good man, with a heart. He understood those who needed help. Why didn't he allow these refugees to disembark? A thousand people in America, the great country, the greatest democracy, the most generous of all new nations in modern history. What happened? I don't understand. Why the indifference, on the highest level, to the suffering of the victims?

Elie Wiesel, "The Perils of Indifference," 1999

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