The so-called “rescue debate” (e.g., the accusations leveled against the Jewish leadership in Palestine and in the United States, as well as against the British, with the American administration being added to the list a little later) could be divided into contemporary concerns, some motivated by politics and some by morality, and to ongoing serious and less serious historiographic inquiries. None, however, has invoked the trap theorem to explain the actual multidimensional aspects of the tragedy. Some have even invoked rescue options as if they really existed and hence golden opportunities were missed, or at least the reader may be led to such conclusions.

The problem here with regard to the Zionists, blamed by various politically motivated persons but also by historians for “Palestinocentrism” (e.g., for focusing on their own narrow community's interests while abandoning the Jews of Europe to their fate), does not only relate to the archival sources but to the reconstruction of the “spirit of the time,” which must be based on a “kaleidoscopic” overall study of the realities of that period from German, Allied, and Jewish points of view combined. Allied and Jewish behavior must be reconstructed on the basis of more sources and interviews. In some research, the “spirit of the time” is hidden or simplified to Allied adherence to the Casablanca Conference decree of “unconditional surrender,” while the behavior of the mainstream Zionists is possibly taken for granted in the sense that they indeed were primarily interested in their narrow, nationalistic socialist dream.