My ancestors were German Jews. They converted to Christianity when they arrived here LEGALLY in the early 1900's. Not a one that I've known through the years has ever voted for a Democrat. But, my family/family tree is a small one. I'll never understand how a people so oppressed would continually vote for their oppressors. 'Jews For Hitler!' *SMIRK*
That’s probably the only time that person wore a yarmulke
THE HOLOCAUST AND FDR’S ANTI-SEMITISM AND ANTI-CATHOLICISM
Robert Michael
The records of the Casablanca Conference contain the clearest and most significant evidence concerning the President attitudes toward the Jews and the basic reason why he did nothing to end the anti-refugee policy of the United States.
The conference took place in January 1, 1943 in the middle of the period when the mass murder of Jews was taking place in Europe. By this time, Roosevelt knew nearly everything about these atrocities. Roosevelt had been informed over the years by American diplomats and American press reports about the Jewish condition in Europe.1 Moreover, in December 1942 the Polish government in exile had accurately informed the U.S. government of many of the facts of the Holocaust.
Yet at Casablanca, Roosevelt amazingly seemed to sympathize with Nazi discrimination against Jews. He proposed to Generals Noguès and Giraud that the French government in North Africa discriminate against the Jews of French North Africa just as Hitler had done in Germany before the war .2) Roosevelt stated that the number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions . . . should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole North African population. He endorsed the same plan for Germany.
Limiting the number of Jews in the professions, he stated, would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore toward the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a single part of the population, over 50 per cent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc., in Germany were Jews. 3)
Roosevelt’s misinformation and solutions were shared by American Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, who had written to Charles Crane that he, Dodd, had told the Germans unofficially that they had a serious [Jewish] problem but that they did not know how to solve it. The Jews had held a great many more of the key positions in Germany than their numbers or their talents entitled them to. 4)
The errors in Roosevelt statements were telling, because they mirrored modern antisemitic stereotypes. In the interwar period, the facts are that Jews comprised about 16 percent of German lawyers, 11 percent of physicians, 4 percent of the university teachers, and 1 percent of teachers in lower grades. 5 )
At Casablanca, F.D.R.’s comments echoed Nazi and American anti-Jewish propaganda of the 1930s. Father Coughlin praised the National-Socialists¸ understandable effort to block the Jewish-Communist plan for subjugating Germany.6 Congressman Louis McFadden had encouraged Hitler¸s attempts to destroy the alleged Jewish control of the German economy, media, education, and professions.7)
For President Roosevelt, America was a “Protestant” nation,8) and Jews were here on suffrance. F.D.R.s feelings about Jews are clear’. One day in January 1942, Roosevelt proclaimed to a shocked Crowley: Leo, you know this is a Protestant country, and the Catholics and the Jews are here on sufferance. It is up to both of you [Crowley and Henry Morganthau, a Jew and Secretary of the Treasury] to go along with anything that I want at this time. 9)
The rest of the history
A Jewish Republican friend told me that he thinks that having been an enslaved and oppressed people once themselves, Jews are inclined to try to do as much as possible for other enslaved and oppressed groups, things that perhaps the enslaved and oppressed CAN’T do for themselves. While I can appreciate and laud that sentiment, I still don’t understand how American Jews can continue to believe that the Dumbcrap party is the party that supports the enslaved and oppressed.
Furthermore, I would posit that all of us have some slavery in our history. War is a fact of the human condition, and peoples have become prisoners of war/slaves several times in our shared history.