FDR DESPISED Jews, just as the Democrats today do. But since Jews support Democrat polices and provide MASSIVE amounts of money, Democrats will continue to fake ‘liking’ Jews.
FDR’s actual policy towards Jews fleeing Hitler is distorted in the Ken Burns documentary to make it look like FDR gave a rip.
I saw Alan Dershowitz talking this when he was young and I was a child 50 some years ago. FDR would not allow Jews on the St. Louis, a ship that Cuba also refused help to, into the USA.
Some made it to the UK others to Holland, Belgium and France. The latter three conquered by the Nazis.
254 died in the Holocaust.
FDR was a hypocrite in this and gave Barnard Baruch the occasional bone to make it look good. And Baruch is a good example of Jew who supported FDR and the Democrats while getting screwed royally.
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.
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.