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Originally posted by Penske_Account
2. The line in the speech I pulled was typical of Roosevelt's stump campaign rhetoric, all of which is part and parcel of a campaign that he ran that was based on not going to war in Europe. For that period this is as common knowledge as the fact that Hitler engaged in a campaign of genocide against the jews of Europe. Or, like the Palestinians, is Ty denying that historical fact too?????
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FDR made most of his statements about staying out of the war in the 1940 campaign, though by the time of the election peacetime conscription was already happening; the invasion of Poland happened in 1939, and the invasion of Belgium and France in Spring and Summer of 1940. At that point, everyone knew Hitler was a brutal meglamaniac and that he was anti-semitic (he had enacted race laws, for example), but there was no public knowledge of genocide.
The first State Department memoranda on the possibility of genocide come in 1942, and the first concentration camps were opened in 1943, but it's hard to say that there was common knowledge among the public until 1944.
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