Saving the Jews Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust

by Rosen, Robert N.; Weinberg, Gerhard; Dershowitz, Alan M.

• ISBN13: 9781560259954
• ISBN10: 1560259957
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-07
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

A rigorously researched narrative of the record of the Roosevelt Administration.

Author Biography

Robert N. Rosen is the author of A Short History of Charleston; Confederate Charleston: An Illustrated History of the City adn the People During the Civil War; The Jewish Confederates, and most recently Charleston: A Crossroads of History with Isabella Leland. He is a lawyer in Charleston, Sout Carolina, and holds an MA in history from Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
List of Illustrations	p. xvii
List of Abbreviations	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Prologue	p. xxix
The New Deal, "The Jew Deal"	p. 1
Wops, Dagoes, Bulls, Hebrews, and Niggers	p. 35
"The Old Roosevelt Magic Has Lost Its Kick"	p. 53
"I Myself Could Scarcely Believe That Such Things Could Occur"	p. 73
"Our Gratitude Is as Immense as the Ocean:" The Voyage of the SS St. Louis	p. 91
"Not a Question of Money, but Lives:" FDR Tries to Ransom German Jewry	p. 105
"Well, Bill, It's Come at Last"	p. 119
"The President Had Said That He Would Wage War but Not Declare It"	p. 141
"We Will Help to End the Curse of Hitlerism"	p. 161
"Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors Are the Actors in This New Tragedy"	p. 185
"We've Got to Go to Europe and Fight"	p. 205
"No Force on Earth Can Stop Them"	p. 221
"This Bestial Policy of Cold-Blooded Extermination"	p. 237
Placating Moroccans and Killing Japs	p. 255
Disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle	p. 267
"The President Was Deeply Moved by the Situation"	p. 283
American Jewish Patriots, Palestinian Jewish Terrorists, and "The Irgunist Hoax"	p. 305
"One of the Blackest Crimes of All History" and the War Refugee Board	p. 337
"What Is the Job before Us in 1944?" D-Day and a Dying President	p. 365
"The First Victims Would Be the Jews:" Why FDR Did Not Order the Bombing of Auschwitz	p. 381
FDR Attempts to Create a Jewish State for the Victims of "Indescribable Horrors"	p. 407
The Verdict	p. 425
Postscript	p. 487
Afterword	p. 499
Time line	p. 503
Acknowledgments	p. 523
Bibliography	p. 529
Notes	p. 547
Index	p. 641
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