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Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945
Simon & Schuster
October 2003
On Sale: September 30, 2003
400 pages
ISBN: 0743244540
EAN: 9780743244541
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction History
A New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors
reveals how Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's private
struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph
Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate
of vanquished Nazi Germany. With monumental fairness and
balance, The Conquerors shows how Roosevelt privately
refused desperate pleas to speak out directly against the
Holocaust, to save Jewish refugees and to explore the
possible bombing of Auschwitz to stop the killing. The book
also shows FDR's fierce will to ensure that Germany would
never threaten the world again. Near the end of World War
II, he abruptly endorsed the secret plan of his friend,
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, to reduce the Germans
to a primitive existence -- despite Churchill's fear that
crushing postwar Germany would let the Soviets conquer the
continent. The book finally shows how, after FDR's death,
President Truman rebelled against Roosevelt's tough approach
and adopted the Marshall Plan and other more conciliatory
policies that culminated in today's democratic, united Europe.
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