Historians: FDR Apathetic to Holocaust

Uh, guess what. WWII wasn't just about the Holocaust. Could things have been done differently according to 20/20 hindsight? Probably. Are there still arguments about what happened and the validity of certain policies? We were fighting Japan also and it was Japan that first attacked us. We were not, in any sense, ready for a war of that magnitude. We supplied Britain and Russia, who were battling the nazis, well before we officially entered the war. Do the Chinese also have a claim against us as we "allowed" the Japanese to kill far more Chinese? How about the Serbs?

We lost 500,000 dead in WWII and whatever we do it's never enough. It's bad enough to get this crap from our enemies, it stinks to get it from our supposed friends.

"Historians who specialize in the question of America's response to the Holocaust are urging the Franklin D. Roosevelt Museum to correct a panel in its exhibit that claims there was nothing President Roosevelt could have done to save many more Jews from the Holocaust."

Look, I am as about as far away from an FDR fan as one could get, but the 1940s were different in that information was not transfered as quickly as it is nowadays.

FDR I am sure could have done more but one must ask how sure were we(USA) what exactly was going on inside the German war machine.

I think we all know now what happened to the Jews now. However put it in the context of today's info capabilities and I am still not sure we could get a 100% consensus on what America should do about such. There are many on the left right now who believe Saddam was just a misunderstood leader of a poor nation and got steamrolled by President Bush so we could steal Iraq's Oil.

Face it the Holocaust was just too barbaric for rational people to comprehend without hard evidence and that kind of info was almost impossible to get in the early 40s.

I look at those pictures today and it still boggles my mind people could be so evil towards someone because of their religious beliefs and heritage.

I have never liked Newsmax. I always suspected it was part of the "blame America first" crowd, along with the NY Times. Now I see evidence.

Like the NY Times, Newsmax manages to blame America for the Holocaust. Nice sell, but I am not buying. The National Socialists were responsible. America ended their reign of terror. We are are the good guys. My country, right or wrong!

Maybe next week Newsmax will tell us that America is responsible for today's 37 deaths, by not acting early enough to forestall it.

Franky, these liberal intellectual sophisticates are not worth a pot of piss.

Years ago there was an interview on pbs or historychannel of one of FDR's cabinet members. He said that FDR had told his cabinet "We are a Protestant nation...you Jews and Catholics are here by suffrage"

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