jewishpress.comToday the Dominican Republic welcomes thousands of sun-worshippers to Sosúa, its popular North-Coast beach resort. In 1940, the Dominican Republic also welcomed travelers, but they were hardly tourists: they were Jews fleeing Nazi terror - and in all the world, this was the only haven offered to them.
The unlikely notion of a Jewish colony in the tropics had its origin in a seemingly unrelated event on March 12, 1938 - the day Hitler's troops marched into Austria. The next day, the Anschluss (unification) of Austria with the German Reich was declared.
Austrians greeted the takeover with wild enthusiasm. When Hitler crossed the border at Linz that evening, a joyous throng awaited him at the city hall. Göring reported in a telephone call, "There is unbelievable jubilation in Austria. We ourselves did not think that sympathies would be so intense." more>>
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