James G. McDonald

Advocate for the Doomed

The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935

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The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886-1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of U.S. ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany, in 1933 he became League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and sought aid from the international community to resettle outside the Reich Jews and others persecuted there. In late 1935… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Breitman, Richard (Hrsg.) / Stewart, Barbara McDonald (Hrsg.) / Hochberg, Severin (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-253-02797-9
EAN: 9780253027979
Produktnummer: 21979674
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 864 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 8'767 KB
Abbildungen: 29 b&w photos

Über den Autor

Richard Breitman is Professor of History at American University. His books include The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution and (with Alan Kraut) American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945(IUP, 1988). He is editor of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.Barbara McDonald Stewart has taught at George Mason University and is author of United States Government Policy on Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1940. She lives in Vienna, Virginia.Severin Hochberg is a historian at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He lives in Washington, D.C.