Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Primary Source Analysis

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State Department officials continued their restrictive measures after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration in March 1933. Although some Americans sincerely believed that the country lacked the resources to accommodate newcomers, the nativism of many others reflected the growing problem of anti-Semitism. So we still talking about the U. S’s response to Holocaust. There are two historians that would be best supported by using all primary source. The best supported historian would be D. Wyman because in reality according to primary sources and some documents his arguments about U.S Government and FDR response on Holocaust can be proved.
First primary source is “Letter to the President”. The letter was written by American Jewish Committee to U.S president. According to letter “within recent month all American have been horrified by… these horrors has now been added the news of Hitler’s edict for the extermination of all Jews in the subjugated land, as we discus, first historian D. Wyman on his arguments did talk about authenticated news that U.S found out about Nazi’s experimentations on Jews only in November 1942. So the source
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Basically the source is U.S Department verses Secretary Department. According to primary source “Secretary Morgenthau says that President (FDR) was deeply disturbed about the failure of the State Department to take any effective action in order to save the Jews in Europe”, the sentence by it self shows the D. Wyman support because he is the one who keep saying that FDR did do anything about Holocaust. On the other hand, we can also support the second his historian by mentioning that “The President actually agreed to take some actions…..and that there was actually a list of people being brought into USA which turned out bad people, however later on turned out that there was only three Jews who turned out to be undesirable” (primary source