... actions of the American people. These actions unfortunately, for whatever reason, were not felt until 6 million Jews had perished. In The Myth of Rescue, William Rubinstein suggests "All of the many studies which criticize the Allies for having failed to rescue Jews during the Holocaust are inaccurate and misleading" (X). He maintains, "No plans for rescue action were actually capable of saving any significant number of Jews who perished" (216) and that the responsibility of the Holocaust "lies solely and wholly with Adolf Hitler, the SS and their accomplices" (216) thus removing any liability or guilt from the Allied nations. Rubinstein chooses to challenge the many "myths" of rescue that could have been enforced by the US by claiming that each suggestion was impractical, inconceivable at that time or incapable of any "significant" rescue. On the contrary, in The Abandonment of the Jews, Wyman expresses the more popularly held ...

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