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Debate Fact Check: Holocaust
From the debatre
Obama: If we could have intervened effectively in the Holocaust, who among us would say that we had a moral obligation not to go in?
If? If?
We knew and did nothing!
FDR was informed many times of what was going via letters and members of Congress and did nothing until Pearl Harbor.
William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian of the Roosevelt era, agrees with David Wyman that F.D.R.'s record on the Holocaust was "shameful." ^ The U.S. Government could not have prevented the Holocaust, Leuchtenburg explains, but it took little advantage of opportunities to help its victims.
Adam & Shoshie 10-21-07: "My family is big and loud and everybody's in each other's lives and business. ... but wherever I go, they will always be there." * My Blog: Tales of a Hopeful Jewish Mom to Be *
Re: Debate Fact Check: Holocaust
Thanks for the history lesson.
I am trying to remember my history here off the top of my head but wasn't most Americans in support of being an isolationist nation? Not that I agree with that but just trying to recall what the public wanted at that time.
You got it. Isolationism was very popular ... that coupled with ignorance and indifference didn't help either.
DH's major was on history of the Holocaust: we had pictures of the camps and the tracks.... the U.S. didn't want to waste the ammunition.
Adam & Shoshie 10-21-07: "My family is big and loud and everybody's in each other's lives and business. ... but wherever I go, they will always be there." * My Blog: Tales of a Hopeful Jewish Mom to Be *
I mean this respectfully, but what is your point? ?It wasn't a historical statement, it's saying that we'd be against the Holocaust now and want to intervene (although, um, hello Darfur). ?
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Also, from the article you cited:
"State Department foot dragging was eventually brought to the President's attention by the Treasury Department, whose Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., was Jewish. F.D.R. responded by setting up an interdepartmental War Refugee Board that ultimately rescued and repatriated about 200,000 European Jews."
And then:
"The documentary contends that while American Jewish leaders were being told such raids would be too dangerous for airmen, U.S. bombers based in Italy were attacking an I.G. Farben factory less than 50 miles from the death camp. In partial defense of this military myopia, Holocaust historian Lucy Dawidowicz has argued that the Germans could have quickly rebuilt the bombed railways and that attacks on crematoria would have killed thousands of Jewish inmates."