Despite what the general American public might have known, Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration, especially his State Department, knew early enough about the severity of Nazi war atrocities to potentially save the lives of many European Jews. But their record in this area was abysmal. There were numerous missed opportunities, some deliberate.
So the author of the posted piece is correct in naming Roosevelt as a malfeasor in what we now refer to as the Holocaust.
This sad history is recounted in a book titled "While 6 Million Died," written by Arthur D. Morse in the 1960s.
Yet these later revelations about Roosevelt et al did little to relieve too many American Jews from their addiction of voting for Democrats.
The more affluent American Jews were worried that all those Eastern Europeans coming over would be an embarrassment, and increase anti-Semitism. Indeed, there was a severe rash of incidents in 1938, even without any increase in immigration quotas.
Tragically, this same syndrome seems to afflict Roman Catholic Voters. My Mom grew up during the Depression, a Boston Irish Catholic. To this day she thinks FDR could do no wrong. When she says “FDR got us out of the Depression” I kindly remind her that it was WW2 that did it.
My Mom says that during the Depression, “Catholics voted Democrat and Protestants voted Republican”.
As if one’s religious affiliation dictated one’s politics.