As a history teacher I have discovered that one of the most enduring myths of younger Americans not versed in the history of their country preceding their birth, is that the United States entered the Second World War in order to save the Jews of Europe. In fact, the very opposite was the case. The government deliberately chose not to save the Jews until it was much too late. After FDR’s callous immigration authorities illegally obstructed and surreptitiously slammed the door to freedom for vast numbers of potential refugees, his administration continued its policy of deliberate betrayal of the millions of European Jews in Hitler’s death camps until the “Final Solution” was almost finalized. David S. Wyman’s The Abandonment of the Jews:  America and the Holocaust 1941-1945, is a masterpiece in meticulous scholarship.  This brilliant book formed the basis for the powerful PBS documentary, America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference. Both Wyman’s book and the film document the pervasive anti-Semitism of the WASP foreign policy elite, as well as the destructive fratricidal warfare in the Zionist community on how to deal with the leaked revelation of the ongoing genocide. Other related books and films may be found here.

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