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FDR doesn’t deserve to be on Vad Yashem. He ignored the news about the camps that came to him from Polish resistance fighters.


10 posted on 05/10/2018 4:30:29 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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"He ignored the news about the camps that came to him from Polish resistance fighters."

I've seen this discussed from time-to-time, but I've never heard what good options FDR had that could have effectively helped the Jews in Poland at that time. We had already declared war against Germany, other than bombing the camps and/or the rail lines leading to them, what could we do?

Lt. Jan Karski made his report to FDR in Dec., 1942. The Eighth Air Force didn't even make its first bombing raid against a target in Germany until Jan. 27th, 1943. The idea that American bombers could have flown across occupied Europe, through Germany and half way across Poland (unescorted for almost the entire trip) to hit a rail line in a forest in Poland, seems pretty unlikely. And even if they were successful, what then? The Nazis would have machine-gunned the occupants of any trains headed toward the disabled camp, repaired the damaged railroad and continued the slaughter. The Nazis had already demonstrated, over and over again, that they didn't need organized camps to kill vast numbers of people.

Having said all that, I think FDR was a POS, but the best way to have helped the Jews, and everyone else in occupied Europe, was to destroy Nazi Germany as quickly as possible.

12 posted on 05/10/2018 4:01:30 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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