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Saving the Jews is a rigorously researched narrative and interpretive history of how FDR and his administration dealt with the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust, 1933-1945. It disputes the generally accepted view that Roosevelt abandoned the Jews of Europe and that America was a passive, callous bystander to the Holocaust, and reveals the true story. The author has conducted new research that explains how the Roosevelt administration and American Jewry saved the passengers on the S.S. St. Louis; how American Jews (and the Jews of Palestine) opposed the bombing of Auschwitz and never asked Roosevelt to bomb the camps; how America and other western democracies saved over seventy percent of German Jewry from Hitler; how Rauol Wallenberg was sent to save Jews by the American government. The research done on this book has found no credible evidence that FDR was an anti-Semite but found that Roosevelt was personally close to many Jews. FDR secretly developed the strategy for the Wagners-Rogers Bill (allowing 20,000 German Jewish children to enter the U.S. in 1938, 1939). Yet most historians continue to accuse him of failing to support the bill.

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P assionate, well researched, and convincing. . . . This strong, counterrevisionist work will not end the debate, but it will help balance the scales. An authoritative analysis of FDR's response to the horrifying plight of the Jews, skillfuly set in the wider frame of the whole war. Indispensible to the better understanding of a highly controversial issue. -- James MacGregor Burns The latest book from . . . Robert Rosen sets the record straight. . . . A fully documented exoneration of the president who helped save the world, and the Jews, from Nazi domination.

An authoritative analysis of FDR's response to the horrifying plight of the Jews, skillfuly set in the wider frame of the whole war. Indispensible to the better understanding of a highly controversial issue. -- James MacGregor Burns

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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.

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