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After [[Kristallnacht]] in November 1938, many Jews within Germany decided that it was time to leave. The ''S.S St. Louis'' carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish, set sail from Hamburg to [[Cuba]] on May 13, 1939. In Cuba the passengers were denied entrance without posting a $500 bond. A few dozen passengers disembarked. The ship set sail for Florida.
After [[Kristallnacht]] in November 1938, many Jews within Germany decided that it was time to leave. The ''S.S St. Louis'' carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish, set sail from Hamburg to [[Cuba]] on May 13, 1939. In Cuba the passengers were denied entrance without posting a $500 bond. A few dozen passengers disembarked. The ship set sail for Florida.
The pro-Fascist, Nazi-sympathizing senator Robert R. Reynolds of [[North Carolina]], a lifelong Democrat,<ref>Pleasants, Julian M. (1994). [https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/reynolds-robert-rice Reynolds, Robert Rice]. ''NCPedia''. Retrieved March 10, 2024.</ref> was an active opponent of the Wagner–Rogers Bill which would have allowed thousands of European Jews to flee Nazism and enter the United States as refugees.<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/wagner-rogers-bill Wagner-Rogers Bill]. ''United States Holocaust Memorial Museum''. Retrieved March 10, 2024.</ref> Reynolds's brazen antisemitism reflected a cold attitude towards the plight of Jewry present among the majority American population at the time, ideologically stemming from the xenophobic, racist legacy of the Progressive Era.
Once in Florida waters, Sec. of State [[Cordell Hull]] advised President Roosevelt to deny the Jews [[asylum]]. The [[U.S. Coast Guard]] and planes followed the ''St. Louis'' to prevent it from landing.<ref>https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-tragedy-of-s-s-st-louis</ref>
Once in Florida waters, Sec. of State [[Cordell Hull]] advised President Roosevelt to deny the Jews [[asylum]]. The [[U.S. Coast Guard]] and planes followed the ''St. Louis'' to prevent it from landing.<ref>https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-tragedy-of-s-s-st-louis</ref>