Operation Texas
Operation Texas was an alleged
Nazi persecution, first reported in a 1989 Ph.D. dissertation by Louis Stanislaus Gomolak at the University of Texas at Austin titled Prologue: LBJ's foreign-affairs background, 1908-1948.[1]
The following are some of the key arguments of the dissertation:
- In 1938, President of the United States of America, worked covertly to establish a refuge in Texas for European Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.[2] Johnson helped hundreds of European Jews enter Texas through Cuba, Mexico and South America.
- In part, Johnson was influenced in his attitude towards the Jews by the religious beliefs that his family, especially his
Various details of Gomolak's dissertation have been cited by other historians.Righteous Gentile.[7]
Additional primary research on Operation Texas was done for a 1998 Houston Chronicle article[8] and a 2016 article on the aish.com website.[9]
More recently, many of the arguments of Gomolak's thesis have been disputed following extensive research by Claudia Wilson Anderson, an archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.[10][11] Although his research materials (e.g., written interview notes, interview recordings and primary documents not located in archives) could support his arguments, Gomolak has not made them available for external review.[11]
References
- OCLC 670540426.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-505435-0. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
- ^ a b c Smallwood, James M. "Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson's Attempt to Save Jews from the German Nazi Holocaust". SFA ScholarWorks. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
- ^ Banta, Joseph (January 1964). "President Lyndon B. Johnson". The Christadelphian. 101: 26.
- ^ Pearce, David M. "Israel: God's People, God's Land". The Christadelphian Magazine and Publishing Association. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ Smallwood, James (2012). "Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Jewish Question and the Nazi Holocaust". East Texas Historical Journal. 50 (2): 88–106. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ^ "Lyndon B. Johnson -- A Righteous gentile". lyndonjohnsonandisrael.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
- ^ Feldman, Claudia (September 27, 1998). "LBJ's Rescue Mission/ The little-known story of Lyndon Baines Johnson and friends helping Jews the Holocaust in Europe". Texas Magazine. Houston Chronicle. pp. Cover Story.
- ^ Koop Kuper, Ivan (February 13, 2016). "Operation Texas: LBJ's Mysterious Mission to Save Jews". aish.com. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ Anderson, Claudia Wilson (2012). "Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson, Operation Texas, and Jewish Immigration". Southern Jewish History. 12. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ^ a b "Operation Texas: LBJ's Mysterious Mission to Save Jews". 14 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
