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Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust. By Robert N. Rosen. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. 2006. xxxiii + 654 pp.
The Nazi crime of genocide against Jews in World War II was so monstrous; it has left two generations of survivors and eyewitnesses to reckon with the consequences. For too short a time (perhaps a year or two before the Cold War proved the folly of such efforts), the civilized world focused its attention upon identification and punishment of the principal miscreants. Government officials, historians, and theologians rationalized that we really did not know about the operative intricacies of Buchenwald and Dachau. Lacking credible information about death camps, confronted with inhuman enemies on five continents, suffering the effects of a destabilized wartime economy, and undermined by racist elements at home, how could Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, or any leader of the free world have mobilized against Auschwitz and Treblinka?
The year 1968 proved to be...
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