Ken Burns Distorts FDR’s Policy on Jewish Refugees

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[Surrounded_too]

“BASEBALL” was rife with “WHITE MAN BAD” guilt trip themes.

[SunkenCiv]

· Voyage of the St Louis [Holocaust Encyclopedia]

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Victor Brombert was born in Berlin in 1923 into a well-to-do Russian-Jewish family that had previously escaped Russia at the outbreak of the revolution. As Hitler rose to power the Brombert family would once again find itself fleeing, this time to the United States.

In 1943 Brombert was drafted into the U.S. Army. Due to his fluency in French, German, and Russian he was placed in a special unit that was trained in frontline military intelligence at Camp Ritchie. Graduates of Camp Ritchie became known as "Ritchie Boys" and would be responsible for collecting more than half the actionable intelligence gathered during World War II.

In 1944 Brombert took part in the Normandy landings with the 2nd Armored Division at Omaha Beach. He would later see action at the Battle of Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge.

German-born Jew on Interrogating Nazi Prisoners of War | American Veterans Center | August 23, 2022

[Paal Gulli]

"The movie Ship of Fools was based on this."

You're thinking of "Voyage of the Damned." "Ship of Fools" was about a sea voyage from Mexico to Germany.

[Captain Peter Blood]

My mistake.

[Captain Peter Blood]

His series on Jazz was pretty bad also.

[minnesota_bound]

Ken Burns blame whitey for everything except killing the Jewish people.

FDR would have been comfortable living in Martha’s Vineyard.

[TigerClaws]

Yes, the St. Louis.

But FDR appointed Brandeis to the Supreme Court.

Lesson: for a Republican, there’s an extremely harsh look back. I’ve seen documentaries about the Reagan years that described nothing like what took place during his prosperous presidency.

Dems get a free pass by the press now and one later from historians.

For example - this is FDR of Japanese internment camps, mind you:

https://www.npr.org/2013/03/18/174125891/fdr-and-the-jews-puts-roosevelts-compromises-in-context

[TigerClaws]

Yes,

Also, there were escapees from the concentration camps who told the west what was taking place. So sending back the ship led to hardly surprising results.

[kvanbrunt2]

And where the FDR policies redlined Jewish areas in philadelphia preventing banks from making real estate loans. Thus creating the Ghettos that now exist in North and west Philly.

[SunkenCiv]

FDR also told Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, "you know this is a Protestant country, and the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance."

[telescope115]

I hadn’t thought of that!😮

[smokingfrog]

That was definitely part of it. Hoover cut back on immigration quotas and FDR continued with similar policies after the stock market crashed. On top of that, the dust bowl years started in the early 30’s.

[Paal Gulli]

Two Jewish men escaped from Auschwitz in January of 1944, having committed to memory detailed information of the operation of the camp and the killings in the gas chambers, to include the names of hundreds who had been murdered. By the time that information reached the Allied powers it was too inconveniently close to D-Day and they wouldn’t/couldn’t risk siphoning off assets from the invasion in order to save the prisoners there.

But the escapees weren’t asking that the Allies save the prisoners at Auschwitz. They wanted Auschwitz bombed and the prisoners killed. Because no one could say how long before the camp might be liberated, and ending their suffering as soon as possible would have been a mercy.

But that wasn’t the first time the West learned that the Nazis were murdering Jews on an industrial scale. Surviving records Show that Washington (and FDR) had come to that knowledge at least by 1938.

[Theoria]

' tiny South American country of Bolivia—which is only 424,000 square miles'

Huh? That's the size of California and Texas combined.

[DesertRhino]

Ingrates.

[jjotto]

Reminds me of the Brit version of Brombert:

https://www.jta.org/2021/04/28/israel/meet-the-97-year-old-british-israeli-man-who-holds-the-guinness-world-record-as-the-worlds-oldest-journalist

[DesertRhino]

Exactly. In 1933 it was not at all apparent that the Holocaust was coming. People in Germany didn’t predict it yet either. Krystallnacht was in 1938. At that time people were extolling the economic genius of Hitler and Mussolini. Our economy was a disaster, a third of the nation was out of work. And he’s going to flood in tens of thousands of Germans now?

This is as empty as the “bomb the rails to the death camps” complaint.

[SunkenCiv]

An award from George VI, remarkable. :^)

[Eleutheria5]

Why would the left lie to make America look good or better. Their usual practice is to lie to make America look bad or worse. Suddenly Ken Burns is a yankee doodle dandy?

[Conservat1]

What right does Burns have to re-victimize the innocent victims of that darkest page in history?