July 4, 1944 The Jewish Refugee Deception of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945

By the beginning of the year more than five million Jews ― and almost as many non-Jews ― had been murdered by the Nazis. As Allied forces prepared to invade France tha June, word leaked out that the Germans were about to begin shipping to Auschwitz some 750,000 Hungarian Jews, the last largely intact Jewish population in Europe. Between June and November ― when, to hide their crimes in the face of advancing Soviet forces, the SS began dismantling the gas chambers and crematoria ― the War Department in Washington received proposals from various sources in and out of government, first to bomb the railroad lines leading to the death camp and then to destroy the camp itself.

The Assistant Secretary of War, John McCloy, after consulting with the military, shelved each of these proposals. AIR ATTACKS ON THE RAIL LINES WERE “IMPRACTICABLE” AND “OF DOUBTFUL EFFICACY,” HE WROTE ON JULY 4, AND “COULD BE EXECUTED ONLY BY THE DIVERSION OF CONSIDERABLE AIR SUPPORT ESSENTIAL TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR FORCES NOW ENGAGED IN DECISIVE OPERATIONS.”

Thirty-odd aerial photographs of nearby industrial targets made in 1944 do accidentally show the Auschwitz complex, but since no one was ever tasked to look for the camp within them, they had no bearing on the situation then.

Nearly four decades after the war and after the 91-year old John McCloy who had been repeatedly denounced by critical historians as complicit in Nazi war crimes, because he had failed to send the bombing proposals on to the White House, he did suddenly “remember” having once discussed the idea with President Roosevelt, who, he claimed, had rejected the notion out of hand.

Roosevelt Said:

“THEY’LL ONLY MOVE IT DOWN THE ROAD A LITTLE WAY … I WON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO [WITH IT] … WE’LL BE ACCUSED OF PARTICIPATING IN THIS HORRIBLE BUSINESS.”

Source: The Wall Street Journal. September 19, 2015.