Richard Breitman
Autor/a de Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Richard Breitman
Holocaust and genocide studies : an international journal — Editor — 10 exemplars
Os Segredos do Reich Que os aliados sabiam 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Breitman, Richard
- Data de naixement
- 1947-03-27
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Etats-Unis
- Educació
- Harvard University
- Organitzacions
- 'American University, Washington DC (Lecturer, 19 75, Professeur, Histoire contemporaine, 19 85 | 20 11))
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Ressenyes
Premis
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 15
- Membres
- 727
- Popularitat
- #34,931
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 9
- ISBN
- 63
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 1
Starting with Morse's 1967 book While Six Million Died the literature has become sharply more critical. This book seeks to argue that, worried about American anti-Semitism FDR was limited to tweaking the administrative system to allow in about 20,000 more Jews per year. Maybe I can be convinced otherwise, but I believe this assertion is inane. If you believe this book, Cordell Hull, the anti-Semitic Secretary of State had more power over the issue than did FDR, the President. FDR was enormously popular and he could have used his powers of moral suasion and "bully pulpit" for better results, if indeed he wanted them. The book also explains why he signed three "Neutrality Acts" under compulsion. Remember, his party had the majority in both houses of Congress and I'm sure he could have found one-third of the members of one house to sustain a veto. Or pressured to ensure that the bill never reached his desk.
The book divides Roosevelt into four phases on his handling of Jewish issues during his Presidency, roughly but not exactly corresponding to his terms in office. He was, according to the book, apathetic during Periods 1 and 3, and more dynamic on the issue in Periods 2 and 4. The distinctions, frankly, are a stretch. The final period was more or less forced by the growing revelations of the horrors of the Holocaust. Still, he shrank from bombing the camps and the rail lines leading to them. The book does not give enough weight to worries that dealing with surviving displaced persons was going to be a major challenge. He does not give enough weight to his waffling on the creation of what is now known as the State of Israel.
I think the book overdoes the apologia for FDR, who I consider to be virtually an enabler of the Holocaust. Sadly, so was Churchill.… (més)