> “He therefore decided that he had to convince American voters that he was strongly “isolationist and anti-immigration.” “
And rightly so. The death camps were an unconfirmed rumor. Although witnesses appeared before FDR to attest to the camps, they were Jewish and therefore not legally a third-party confirmation. Furthermore, Hitler had allowed international inspections of selected ‘show camps’ where conditions were quite good. Although these were all lies, hindsight is 20-20.
> “He was enabled in this undertaking by his anti-Semitic advisors, including diplomats such as Joseph Kennedy, FDR’s Ambassador to the UK, who hobnobbed with his Nazi German counterpart and conveyed that many Americans shared Germany’s anti-Semitism.”
FDR was not anti-semitic. His administration had more Jewish cabinet members and advisors than any previous presidential administration in the nation’s history.
I am setting the record straight. FDR’s policies were severely flawed and against the principles of the nation’s founding. But he was a patriot with a love of his country. There were democrats in that time who put the country before themselves, but not now.
My father was a democrat. Let me clarify, he was a ***conservative democrat***, a species of democrat that no longer exists. He gave his life for his country and loved America. This was the sort of democrat that predominated during Roosevelt’s time.
And remember Ronald Reagan was at one time a democrat, a conservative democrat, also from the Roosevelt era.
Some Jews today are out to rewrite history of the Roosevelt era as one of American Anti-Semitism.
Won’t work.
They try and rewrite that Americans knew about the Nazi death camps and did nothing to stop it. They write that American military forces could have liberated the camps sooner.
Bullshit.
The camps were behind enemy lines. There were no escape routes. The genocide was rumored but unconfirmed. To liberate the camps meant first bringing the German war machine to its knees.
The American Army was in a death match with Hitler. The strategy was to bring down the German war machine. Hundreds of thousands of American men gave their lives to that effort and without their sacrifice untold numbers of more Jews and others would have been exterminated.
This attempt to rewrite history will not stand.
It’s time for these American-hating Jews to face reality and that reality is America is not going to sacrifice ALL of its blood and treasure for every injustice that exists. America is first going to survive so that it can preserve liberty for future generations of Americans. And right now Americans have their work cut out for them starting in 2016 to reclaim the principles of the original American idea. It’s not going to be easy, it never is.
Just so we're clear about this: there were no Nazi death camps in 1939, none.
Yes, there were concentration camps, work camps, but no camps yet for the mass extermination of Jews.
Those didn't really get organized until after Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, in June 1941.
Please note my post #23 above.
Is this your opus?
Good thoughtful post. I don’t like attempts by left or right to rewrite history.
There was a huge amount of anti semitism expressed by Roosevelt's opposition, spearheaded by Father Coughlin. This is in large part why Jews have been solidly Democratic ever since.
1942 appears to be the time when Allies learned.
“Did the Allies and the people in the Free World know about the events going on in Europe?
Answer: The various steps taken by the Nazis prior to the “Final Solution” were all taken publicly and were, therefore, reported in the press. Foreign correspondents commented on all the major anti-Jewish actions taken by the Nazis in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia prior to World War II. Once the war began, obtaining information became more difficult, but reports, nonetheless, were published regarding the fate of the Jews. Thus, although the Nazis did not publicize the “Final Solution,” less than one year after the systematic murder of the Jews was initiated, details began to filter out to the West. The first report which spoke of a plan for the mass murder of Jews was smuggled out of Poland by the Bund (a Jewish socialist political organization) and reached England in the spring of 1942. The details of this report reached the Allies from Vatican sources as well as from informants in Switzerland and the Polish underground. (Jan Karski, an emissary of the Polish underground, personally met with Franklin Roosevelt and British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden). Eventually, the American Government confirmed the reports to Jewish leaders in late November 1942. They were publicized immediately thereafter. While the details were neither complete nor wholly accurate, the Allies were aware of most of what the Germans had done to the Jews at a relatively early date.”
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394663#20
I despise FDR. He made the near socialist takeover of the US. His social security plan and WPA sapped life out of us. He was not the “Great White Father,” as he is often called.
It will soon be time for Jew-hating Americans to be separated from the sheep, but until then, they will keep hating the Jews.