Operation Texas

Operation Texas was a measure carried out from 1938 by the then American Congressman and later US President Lyndon B. Johnson and others, which enabled Jewish refugees from Europe to enter Texas with valid papers via Cuba , South America and Mexico .

The Austrian conductor Erich Leinsdorf (1912–1993) was among those who entered Operation Texas .

Web links

• James M. Smallwood "OPERATION TEXAS, Lyndon B. Johnson's Attempt to Save Jews from the German Nazi Holocaust"
• James Smallwood "Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Jewish Question and the Nazi Holocaust"

literature

• Ronnie Dugger: The Politician. The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson. The Drive for Power, from Frontier to Master of the Senate. Norton, New York NY et al. 1982, ISBN 0-393-01598-X .
• Henry L. Feingold: The Politics of Rescue. The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ 1970, ISBN 0-8135-0664-6 .