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Ken Burns Distorts FDR’s Policy on Jewish Refugees
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Posted on 09/19/2022 7:52:15 PM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: BobL

Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, a prominent St Luis, Mo attorney, was in charge of refugee admissions. Long, as his published diary clearly shows literarally hated Jews per se. The very presence of Jews outraged and nauseated him. He was an FDR appointee and retained the President’s confidence throughout the period. He regularly fed FDR the incredible bs that allowing Jews to enter the US would allow ‘hosts of Gestapo agents. to enter the US. FDR was always ‘appalled and horrified’ by this total lie (with tongue firmly in his cheek). FDR was by no means alone in his Jew loathing attitudes, upper class WASP America in the period absolutely hated Jews as noisy, pushy, smelly, obnoxious know it all foreigners. FDR was just reflecting how his class felt, Prescott Bush, at this time, for instance, hated Jews so much he would refuse to be in a room with a known Jew.
“it doesn’t matter how much they wash or how clean their clothing, I can still smell them.’ his is reported to have said.


41 posted on 09/19/2022 10:09:55 PM PDT by robowombat (As am I, but it isnot any of my business that the people of GOrth,He looks like the sex all y one )
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To: Az Joe

In this case it looks like he’s making America look better than it was, or at least making a Democrat icon look better than he was.


42 posted on 09/19/2022 10:15:06 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: TigerClaws
Interesting that the author refers to the emigres as Jewish when they are let into any other country, but German when they entered the US.

Was FDR just overly concerned that Germans, Jewish or otherwise, might end up being spies?

He certainly was suspicious of Japanese Americans.

43 posted on 09/19/2022 10:16:44 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Disagree


44 posted on 09/19/2022 10:23:07 PM PDT by Az Joe (Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
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To: robowombat
Prescott Bush, at this time, for instance, hated Jews so much he would refuse to be in a room with a known Jew.

Do you have a reputable source for that?

All kinds of crazy, unconfirmed rumors circulate on the Internet.

45 posted on 09/19/2022 10:23:52 PM PDT by x
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To: TigerClaws

What about the St. Louis?


46 posted on 09/19/2022 10:34:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

FDR hated Japanese for the most floridly racist reasons. He did believe that they were little crosseyed sub humans who could only copy westerners. He hated them as he irrationally hated Germans and wanted them exterminated.


47 posted on 09/19/2022 10:35:16 PM PDT by robowombat (As am I, but it isnot any of my business that the people of GOrth,He looks like the sex all y one )
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To: x

Foote was paid well for collaborating in the Burns propaganda deception. He needed the money badly and he kept his mouth shut about Burns hacks cutting his remarks to say the opposite of what he really said. When you shake hands with the devil count your fingers afterward. Burns is just woke communist whore.


48 posted on 09/19/2022 10:40:18 PM PDT by robowombat (As am I, but it isnot any of my business that the people of GOrth,He looks like the sex all y one )
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To: robowombat
Why are the absolute worst president idolized? FDR, Wilson, Obama?

I hope that 100 years from now that FDR, Wilson, etc. will be treated properly and put in the same category as Caligula and Nero.

49 posted on 09/19/2022 10:48:32 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Levy78

“Ken Burns is a leftist propagandist and hopefully future generations remember as such.”

FDR, and BURNS, are the most overrated people in their fields in the last 100 years (with the exceptions of the tree great Martyrs and subsequent Saints, St. Trayvon Martin, St. Michel Brown, and St. George Floyd.)

Here is all one needs to know about St. Franklin (I KNOW IT, AND I’M NOT EVEN DOING A DOCUMENTARY ON HIM)!

Said to Henry Morgenthau, Treasury Secretary; “You know this is a Protestant country, and the Catholics and Jews are here under SUFFERANCE. [Its](sic) up to you to go along with anything I want.”

Hated Catholics, too. Nice guy St. Franklin.

Like ALL LEFTISTS BURNS & FDR, are lying, manipulative, hate filled scum.


50 posted on 09/19/2022 10:49:02 PM PDT by TigerHawk (The Raised Middle Finger in the Clenched Fist of the World!)
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To: TigerHawk; All

Big Frank wanted to be the greatest man in world history. He carefully plotted a world in which only two nations would matter, the USSR and the USA. His ‘unconditional surrender’ remark at Casablanca and his ‘gaffe’ at Yalta saying US forces would only remain in Europe of a couple years after the end of hostilities were carefully plotted to guarantee Germany would be destroyed and the Soviet Union would dominated Europe forever. The goal was for Stalin to control Eurasia and the US to control ‘Oceania’, the Western hemisphere and the Pacific Ocean Area. Big Frank wanted to humiliate France by destroying its empire because French boys and girls laughed at his incredibly poor and sel important attempts to speak French when in Paris as a teen ager and he hated Germany because he picked a fight with a junior officr cadet of the Royal Saxon Army in Dresden just before he went to Groton. The cadet was much younger and smaller than Big Frank and he beat the hell out of the cowardly and egotistical Roosevelt. After that he hated Germany. He only denied the Morgenthau Plan because Stimson, to his eternal credit, confronted Big Frank about it.


51 posted on 09/19/2022 11:07:34 PM PDT by robowombat (As am I, but it isnot any of my business that the people of GOrth,He looks like the sex all y one )
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To: TigerClaws

ken burns is definitely even more troubling

you know ken is lying cuz he is a LEFTIST


52 posted on 09/20/2022 12:39:17 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: TigerClaws

FDR hated Jews


53 posted on 09/20/2022 12:46:30 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: DesertRhino

by people you mean progressives


54 posted on 09/20/2022 12:58:21 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Eleutheria5

um not America a democrat


55 posted on 09/20/2022 1:01:05 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: robowombat

on the japanese internment

we stopped trading with Brazil cuz we were losing too many ships

Brazil has a large japanese population

La Paz is majority japanese

how many American lives were saved cuz of the japanese internment

American lives as in merchant marines

we werent executing the japanese


56 posted on 09/20/2022 1:04:25 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: robowombat

and brazil refused to intern their japanese


57 posted on 09/20/2022 1:06:02 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: joshua c

What is your point? Your post is incoherent. Were you drunk when you posted it. If you are lucid kindly try to post in real sentences.


58 posted on 09/20/2022 2:49:21 AM PDT by robowombat (As am I, but it isnot any of my business that the people of GOrth,He looks like the sex all y one )
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To: TigerClaws

I plan on skipping this.


59 posted on 09/20/2022 3:45:20 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: BobL
FDR DESPISED Jews,

And I have read that FDR appointed more Jews to judgeships and cabinet positions than any previous president.

In fact, the real anti-Semites of the day called Roosevelt "Rosenberg" or "Rosenfeld" or some such.

60 posted on 09/20/2022 4:23:00 AM PDT by Angelino97
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