Friday, June 5, 2009

FDR not a reliable friend...not even a friend, Cf Obama.

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Why Holocaust shocked Obama's uncle Rafael Medoff , THE JERUSALEM POST...President Barack Obama's planned visit to...Buchenwald on June 5 will have special significance because his great uncle, Charlie Payne, was one of the American soldiers who liberated a sub-camp......Urging increased funding for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder among soldiers, Obama said that when Charlie returned home, "he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months....The horror that Charlie and his fellow-GIs felt upon seeing the Nazis' victims was compounded by the fact that they were completely unprepared for
what they were about to see. Although the army's senior brass was fully informed about the Nazis' mass murder of millions of European Jews..."A CONCENTRATION CAMP at Dachau was a complete surprise to all of us,"..."We were not ordered to take Dachau; we just kind of stumbled on to it. I didn't even know it existed."..."At the time, we did not know those camps existed. Our government lied to us. We were not prepared for what we found."...six months before Obama's great-uncle entered Ohrdruf ­Sgt. Paul submitted an article about the mass murder of the Jews in Auschwitz, the editors of Yank turned it down, saying it was "too Semitic." They told him to rewrite it so that it "did not deal principally with Jews."...not until April 1945 that Stars and Stripes finally published articles about
Nazi atrocities and concentration camps, and even then, the articles did not mention Jews....unfortunately consistent with the approach of the Roosevelt administration as a whole. Calling attention to the fact that the Jews were being singled out for persecution would have increased pressure on the US government to grant them refuge ­- something President Franklin Roosevelt did not want to do....US Office of War Information instructed their staff that coverage of the Nazi mass-murders would be "confused and misleading if it appears to be simply affecting the Jewish people."...foreign ministers in Moscow in October 1943
issued a statement threatening postwar punishment for Nazi war crimes against conquered populations. It mentioned "French, Dutch,..."­ but not Jews....Eisenhower himself removed all references to Jews from a leaflet the Allies air-dropped over Europe in September 1944,...President Roosevelt's 1944 message commemorating the first anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt -­ a rebellion by Jewish fighters ­- did not mention the Jews.
Arthur Szyk, the famous artist and Holocaust rescue activist, remarked bitterly that Europe's Jews were being "treat[ed] as a pornographical subject ­you cannot discuss it in polite society."...Perhaps...will inspire the president to say a few words about the Roosevelt administration's appalling policy toward Europe's Jews during the Holocaust­ and about the lessons to be learned, in order to help stop genocide today.

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