Roosevelt And the Holocaust

by Beir, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781569803110
• ISBN10: 1569803110
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-03
• Publisher: Barricade Books

Summary

"To Robert Beir, Roosevelt was a hero. At an early age the author became a "Rooseveltian." In mid-life however, Beir experienced a conflict. New research was questioning Roosevelt's record regarding the Holocaust. The author felt compelled to undertake a historian's quest. How much did President Roosevelt know about the Holocaust? What could Roosevelt have done? Why wasn't there an urgent rescue effort?"--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Ernest Michel
Acknowledgments	xiii
Timeline of World and Holocaust Events	xvii
Introduction	xxxiii
A Blur of Strange Occurrences	1	(6)
A Decade of Newsreels	7	(22)
Impressions of War-Torn Britain	29	(26)
The Kind of Man Roosevelt Hired	55	(10)
``What Have I Got to Lose?''	65	(6)
A Journey with Roosevelt	71	(4)
``The Best Jew Is a Dead Jew''	75	(18)
The Avery Brundage Effect	93	(6)
Quarantine	99	(8)
``An Orgy of Sadism''	107	(10)
A ``Dangerous People to Have Around in Large Number''	117	(6)
``Chased Like an Animal''	123	(6)
``No Cause for Alarm''	129	(14)
``Fear of the Hordes''	143	(12)
``With a Determined Resolve''	155	(14)
``The Crime of the Bureaucrats''	169	(18)
Bermuda and Warsaw	187	(6)
``We Shall No Longer Witness with Pity Alone''	193	(18)
``Relief, Like Water to the Thirsty''	211	(6)
Contact with Karski	217	(8)
Counterforces	225	(20)
A Sense of Agony?	245	(12)
Why I Call Myself a Rooseveltian	257	(14)
This Is What's Happening	271	(18)
A Final Note	289	(2)
Endnotes	291	(16)
Bibliography	307	(7)
Index	314