Could you get the idea that America and Israel were allies if you didn't know the part Roosevelt played...

Question

...in the Holocaust? Who was that masked man?

Answer 1

I realize that it is bandied about (after the fact) that there are all sorts of things that Roosevelt could have done during the war to rescue Jewish victims, but why must all of these things all lead to helping the n***s win the war?

The German war effort was defeated economically, and giving the n***s more gold and resources in exchange for Jews could very well have at least extended the war by a few years, if not ended in German victory. Even the books that support this sort of ransom payment admit that the n***s would not have honored the agreement anyways (Germany accepted a huge ransom in exchange for diverting a train load of Jews from Auschwitz - they were instead sent to Bergen Belsen where they ended up just as dead).

And, not to be nasty but perhaps this should be remembered, there were at least 6 million innocent people in Asia and the Pacific who were murdered by the Japanese in large part because Roosevelt diverted the majority of Allied war effort to Europe for his plan to 'liberate the Jews through victory.'

Answer 2

Roosevelt didn't play a part in the Holocaust, he probably knew about it before the American people did but there wasn't anything he could do about it.  The U.S. sent millions of men to help defeat Hitler and it took nearly 4 years after the U.S. entered the war.  It's not as if Roosevelt could have told Hitler to free all those in the concentration camps and Hitler would have felt an obligation to do so.  I wonder how many people who say Roosevelt was complicit in the holocaust choose to think the German people knew nothing of it.

Answer 3

From Paul Johnson's A History of the Jews, pp. 504-505:

A major obstacle to action was F.D. Roosevelt himself. He was both anti-Semitic, in a mild way, and ill informed. When the topic came up at the Casablanca Conference, he spoke of "the understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany, namely that while they represented a small part of the population, over 50 per cent of the lawyers, doctors, schoolteachers, college professors in Germany were Jews" (the actual figures were 16.3, 10.9, 2.6 and 0.5 per cent). Roosevelt seems to have been guided purely by domestic political considerations. He had nearly 90 per cent of the Jewish vote anyway and felt no spur to act. Even after the full facts of systematic extermination became available, the President did nothing for fourteen months. A belated Anglo-American conference on the issue was held in Bermuda in April 1943, but Roosevelt took no interest in it, and it decided that nothing of consequence could be done. Indeed it specifically warned "that no approach be made to Hitler for the release of potential refugees." In the end, a War Refugee Board was created. It had little help from the government and 90 per cent of its funds came from Jewish sources....

The question of bombing the gas chambers was raised in the early summer of 1944, when the destruction of the Hungarian Jews got under way. Churchill in particular was horrified and keen to act....But Churchill was its only real supporter in either government. Both the air forces hated military operations not directed to destroying enemy forces or war potential. The US War Dept. rejected the plan without even examining its feasibility.

Here we come to a harsh and important point. The refusal to divert forces for a special Jewish rescue operation was in accordance with general war policy. Both governments had decided, with the agreement of their respective Jewish communities, that the speedy and total defeat of Hitler was the best way to help the Jews. This was one reason why the vast and powerful US Jewish community gave little priority to the bombing issue...