¶ … Franklin Delaney Roosevelt's attitude towards the Jewish problem during the War. I have read and heard such contradictory accounts spanning from Jews who congratulate for his involvement to some scholars and others who criticize him for an alleged anti-Semitism. Being that this is a famous personality that we are talking about and a prominent President of the U.S.A.; I felt that enlightenment on the subject was important. I wanted to go to the source, and therefore I accessed original documents from the collections of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. These, compounded with other sources, are the results that I found.
By the 1940s, news had already reached the U.S.A. about the concentration camps which Edward R. Murrow described (December, 13, 1942),as "A horror beyond what imagination can grasp . . . there are no longer 'concentration camps' -- we must speak now only of 'extermination camps.'" (FDR AND THE HOLOCAUST)
Roosevelt had time and again been told about the horrors facing the Jews in Nazi Germany: that thousands (later it was revealed to be millions) had been sent to secluded ghettos where many died from starvation; that many had been conscripted into forced labor; that their jobs and homes had been confiscated; that they were forced to wear yellow stars which singled them out for persecution; that they were denigrated such as compelled to sweep the streets; that they discreetly gassed whilst still alive; and that others were crammed into synagogues with synagogues burnt, shot as they were roaming the streets, or mowed down in huge execution squads.
Further horrors included the infamous Kristalnacht where store windows were shattered and synagogues burnt as well as books destroyed; Jews excluded from non-Jewish territories including parks; thrown out form their professions and schools; and forbidden from attending cultural events or anything that included assimilation of Jew with non-Jew. They were forbidden, too (amongst many other laws) to ride the trams or even (later) to possess bikes. These were just a few of the German policies that oppressed and limited the life of the Jews during the Third Reich.
Roosevelt received continuous...
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