Sunday, November 09, 2008

The Great FDR And The Slaughter Of The Jews


It's the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht.

While many Americans would also claim they were unaware of the
atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, the events of November
9-10 were well documented. The New York Times ran a front-page story on November
11: "A wave of destruction, looting and incendiarism unparalleled in Germany
since the Thirty Years War and in Europe generally since the Bolshevist
Revolution swept over Great Germany today as National Socialist cohorts took
vengeance on Jewish shops, offices and synagogues for the murder by a young
Polish Jew of Ernst vom Rath, third secretary of the German Embassy in Paris."
Another Times story was headlined, "All Vienna's synagogues attacked."


FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT made no immediate comment after Kristallnacht,
referring questions about it to the State Department. Only after five days of
widespread public outrage did he take any action:

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