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Historiahn: New Evidence Shows FDR Derailed Many Holocaust Rescue Plans
(Times of Israel) Matt Lebovic - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt obstructed opportunities to rescue Jews from the Nazis that would have cost him little or nothing, according to Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff, who detailed FDR's role in preventing the rescue of European Jewry in a new book, The Jews Should Keep Quiet. According to Medoff, Roosevelt's policies toward European Jews were motivated by sentiments similar to those that spurred him to intern 120,000 Japanese Americans in detention camps as potential spies. Medoff told the Times of Israel: "I was struck by the similarity between the language FDR used regarding the Japanese, and that which he used in private concerning Jews - that they can't be trusted, they won't ever become fully loyal Americans, they'll try to dominate wherever they go." Even in 1944, when a Gallup poll found that the American public overwhelmingly approved of letting in an unlimited number of Jewish refugees, Roosevelt worked to make sure nothing of the sort took place. "His harsh policy was a choice that he made, which emanated from his vision of what he thought America should look like," said Medoff.