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Franklin Roosevelt Betrayed Europe’s Jews
by Sol Stern
January 30, 2020

…David Wyman’s massive 1984 study, The Abandonment of The Jews: America and The Holocaust, 1941-1945, demolished virtually every argument used by the Roosevelt biographers to exonerate the president. It also became a surprise bestseller. Wyman’s most disturbing revelation…was that in the summer of 1944 U.S. war planes were flying over Auschwitz on their way to attacking German oil refineries farther north.  The bombers could have dropped some of their payload on the death factories then operating on overtime, or on the rail lines leading to the camp—a proposal advocated by a wide array of Jewish leaders in the United States and Palestine. READ MORE