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To: presidio9
Both FDR and his wife, Eleanor, were genteel anti-Semites ...

It would be hard to find people who weren't (by today's standards) back then.

People had a hard time believing the stories until they actually saw the gas chambers and bodies (or photographs of them).

There had been a lot of atrocity stories about Germany conduct in Belgium in the First World War that hadn't been true, so people were skeptical about the rumors.

A classic comment of the day occured when Jan Karski delivered his report about Auschwitz:

Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, a Jew, had told Karski: “Young man, I can’t believe you.” Asked if he doubted Karski, Frankfurter replied: “You don’t understand me. I didn’t say he isn’t telling the truth, I said I can’t believe him.”

47 posted on 03/13/2013 4:26:35 PM PDT by x
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Germans were technical advisers to the Turks in their genocide of Armenian Christians during World War I.

Despite first-hand reports, skepticism prevailed there too.


49 posted on 03/13/2013 4:33:00 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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