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Accomplices : Churchill, Roosevelt and the Holocaust.
Title:
Accomplices : Churchill, Roosevelt and the Holocaust.
Author:
Groth, Alexander J.
ISBN:
9781453905807
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Series:
Studies in Modern European History ; v.67

Studies in Modern European History
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Terms of Reference ix -- Preface xi -- 1. Overview 1 -- 2. The War-Constraints and Opportunities 43 -- 3. The Importance of Silence 71 -- 4. A Policy of Physical Non-Interference 101 -- 5. Delivering Jews to the Gas Chambers 131 -- 6. Clues to Behavior 185 -- 7. Chroniclers and Commentators: A Question of Inference 225 -- 8. Epilogue 279 -- Index 285.
Abstract:
This volume asserts that there was tacit cooperation in the Nazi extermination of the Jewish population of Europe by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War. Although the Allies publicly recognized the Nazi massacre of the Jews in the London Declaration of December 17, 1942, the policies they pursued allowed the genocide to continue. They did so, the author claims, in three ways: (1) refusal to publicly and personally speak about and against the Nazi extermination of the Jews; (2) refusal to commit even one soldier, one plane, or one warship to any forcible opposition to the Final Solution throughout the Second World War; and (3) obstruction of Jewish escape from Hitler's Europe. This book explores the motivation for the policies Churchill and Roosevelt pursued.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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