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Cordell Hull
Henry Stimson
He was Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover, and was Secretary of War under
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
Ambassador to Italy under Roosevelt
Head of Visa Section, Department of State
Breckenridge Long
Used his position to impede the ability of Jews and other
victims of Nazi persecution to seek refuge in the United
States.
Memo from Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long,
to State Department Officials dated June 26, 1940,
outlining effective ways to obstruct the granting of U.S. visas.
“We can delay and effectively stop for a temporary period of indefinite length the
number of immigrants into the United States. We could do this by simply advising
our consuls, to put every obstacle in the way and to require additional evidence
and to resort to various administrative devices which would postpone and
postpone and postpone the granting of the visas.”
John McCloy
Appointed Assistant Sec. of War on April 22, 1941. During the Spring and Summer of
1945, McCloy spent most of his time working on issues involving postwar Germany.
Morganthau
Morganthau
In 1938, Coughlin published a
version of "The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion." A virulently antiSemitic piece of propaganda that
had originated in Russia at the turn
of the century, the "Protocols"
accused Jews of planning to seize
control of the world. Jewish leaders
were shocked by Coughlin's actions.
Reverend Charles E. Coughlin
One of the most influential personalities on American radio and staunch Roosevelt
supporter.
At the height of his popularity in the early 1930s, some 30 million listeners tuned in
to hear his emotional messages.
Cordell Hull
Sumner Welles
Under Secretary of State
Henry Stimson
Sec. of Defense
Francis Perkins
Sec. of Labor
Harold Ickes
Sec. of Interior
Evian International Conference on Refugees July 1938
The American Delegate: "We are coming to try to figure out what to do for the Jews,
but no nation will be asked to take any more Jews than its quota already allows."
Goering Greeting United States Undersecretary of State, Sumner Welles, in 1940
“The Bergson Boys”
Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook) led a
dissident group of Zionists known
in the United States as the
Emergency Committee to Save
the Jewish People of Europe..
"Informer reported to have
close connections with
highest German authorities
who has previously
generally reliable reports
says that in Fuehrer's [sic]
headquarters plan under
consideration to
exterminate at one blow
this fall three and half to
four millions Jews
following deportation from
countries occupied,
controlled by Germany and
concentration in east.
Method execution
undecided but prussic acid
has been considered.
Information transmitted
with reservation as
exactitude cannot be
ascertained."
August 28, 1942, Rabbi Stephen Wise
received an alarming cable from Gerhard
Reigner in Switzerland.
‘We will never die,” New York, 1943
Jan Karski
Courier from the Polish Underground
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Poughkeepsie, New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at the Livadia Palace in Yalta (9 FEB 1945)
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Washington, DC
Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia at Great Bitter Lake in Egypt
14 Feb 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Farouk of Egypt at Great Bitter Lake in Egypt,
13 Feb 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill in Teheran, Iran (11 NOV 1943)
The Holocaust: the Untold Story
Arthur Syk: Drawings on War