Posted on 05/18/2014 10:06:43 PM PDT by Nachum
Last month, 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon told the remarkable story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker in London who saved 669 Czech children-- most of them Jewish--from the Nazis during WWII. England took in almost all of the 669 children. Winton, now 104 years old, told 60 Minutes he had made a desperate plea for help to the United States back in 1939. He said he had written a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, describing the plight of the Czech children and asking that America grant refuge to a number of them. "But the Americans wouldn´t take any,
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The RATs are always SAYING that it’s all about the children.
DOING is what they don’t do.
The bureaucracy works with lightening speed.
Sir Winston should have told FDR the children were Mexicans. Maybe then FDR would have accept them.
Try to get hold of a video called 'America and the Holocaust' which was produced for PBS. FDR knew about the dangers to Jews. He didn't seem to care. His personal friend Breckinridge Long, who was assistant Sec. Of State was an anti-semite who did all in his power to prevent the immigration of Jews.
Don’t you just love how some people support socialism, then when it comes back and bites them in the ass, they whine.
I have met very few Jews, and they are rare in my neck of the woods. Would an informed FReeper mind explaining why this (dim left leaning) is?
Example on how the newspapers and radio covered up for the democrat socialist way back then. Nevermind that millions died.
FDR as president was a vile socialist.
Many did manage to escape Germany, but not the continent.
At the time, while most felt Germany’s treatment of Jews was harsh, especially after Krystallnacht, it wasn’t that far removed from the treatment they got in many other countries at that time. It just wasn’t the thing to be appalled by back then.
It’s hard to believe FDR wasn’t anti-Semitic.
“Vice President Henry Wallace, who noted the conversation in his diary, said Roosevelt spoke approvingly of a plan (recommended by geographer and Johns Hopkins University President Isaiah Bowman) ‘to spread the Jews thin all over the world.’”
from the article linked in post 17
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FDR knew, he simply didn't care. If he did, his voice would have been raised in 1933. Related threads
No, the information was out there, but FDR knew conclusively the rumors were true in July, 1943, when he met in the Oval Office with an agent of the Polish Underground. As Felix Frankfurter said to the agent, I could not believe him. Not I didn't, I couldn't.
Well over half the population of Germany fled, most estimates 60% to 70%. Fled to where. France. The low countries. Eastern Europe. And a few of the connected, England and the USA. Options to leave the continent were few.
Was it "I Will Bear Witness" by Victor Klemperer? I was struck by how the guy just refused to see where things were going even as he mentioned friends of his getting out of Germany before 1936.
Sickening.
Interestingly enough, the letter from Mr. Winton to Franklin D. Roosevelt doesn't specifically mention Jewish children. Wonder why? Was Winton thinking that if he mentioned the "J" word, Roosevelt would be less inclined to respond positively? Or was it merely understood, given the geographical and historical context, that the children referred to were predominantly Jewish?
Regardless, Roosevelt's lack of response was very much consistent with his historical record, and that of his administration (especially the State Dept.) of callousness toward the plight of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, which is well documented in, e.g., Arthur D. Morse's book, "While 6 Million Died," published c. 1967.
Yet American Jewish Voters gave Roosevelt higher percentages of their vote than any other presidential candidate in modern history. Many American Jews during that period foolishly considered Roosevelt as an icon, a status that has been regrettably passed down through the generations by sheer ignorance. (By contrast, Roosevelt's chief opponent in the 1932 presidential race, Herbert Hoover, had much better record on European Jewish concerns during the periods after WWI and after WWII. Although not a particularly good president, Hoover can truly be considered an outstanding humanitarian before and after his years in the White House.)
Good point!
By the time the letter referred to in this post was written by Mr. Winton, Kristallnacht had occurred six months before, so you didn't have be president to know that Jews in Germany and Nazi-occupied areas were in deep trouble.
But Nazi atrocities against Jews were in full evidence years before that, with the Hitler regime taking power in January 1933. The US had an embassy in Berlin which would have been relaying Roosevelt information about Nazi antisemitism six years before this letter was written.
Could have been written today.
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