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100 1 _aBeschloss, Michael R.
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245 1 4 _aThe conquerors :
_bRoosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 /
260 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_cc2002.
300 _axiv, 377 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index.
505 0 _aPlot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred percent American" -- "Oppressor of the Jews" -- "We will have to get awfully busy" -- "Not nearly as bad as sending them to gas chambers" -- Somebody's got to take the lead" -- "Christianity and kindness" -- "It is very, very necessary" -- "Do you want me to beg like Fala?" -- "A hell of a hubbub" -- "As useful as ten fresh German divisions" -- "Lord give the president strength" -- "The only bond is their common hate" -- "Arguing about the future of the world" -- "No earthly powers can keep him here" -- "What will we make of it?" -- "I was never in favor of that crazy plan" -- "You and I will have to bear great responsibility" -- "How I hate this trip!" -- "We are drifting toward a line down the center of Germany" -- "Spirit and soul of a people reborn" -- Conquerors.
520 _aAs Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again. Eleven years in the writing, drawing on newly opened American, Soviet and British documents as well as private diaries, letters and secret audio recordings, Michael Beschloss's gripping narrative lets us eavesdrop on private conversations and telephone calls among a cast of historical giants. The book casts new light upon Roosevelt's concealment of what America knew about Hitler's war against the Jews and his foot-dragging on saving refugees. FDR's actions so shocked his closest friend in the Cabinet, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., that Morgenthau risked their friendship by accusing the President of "acquiescence" in the "murder of the Jews." After the Normandy invasion, "obsessed" by what he had learned about the Nazis and the Holocaust, Morgenthau drew up a secret blueprint for the Allies to crush Germany by destroying German mines and factories after the European victory. As The conquerors shows, FDR endorsed most of Morgenthau's plan, and privately pressured a reluctant Churchill to concur. Horrified, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of War Henry Stimson leaked the plan to the press at the zenith of the 1944 campaign. Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels denounced the Roosevelt-Churchill "Jewish murder plan" and claimed it would kill forty-three million Germans. Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey charged that by stiffening German resistance, publicity about Morgenthau's plan had cost many U.S. soldiers' lives. The conquerors explores suspicions that Soviet secret agents manipulated Roosevelt and his officials to do Stalin's bidding on Germany. It reveals new information on FDR's hidden illnesses and how they affected his leadership--and his private talk about quitting his job during his fourth term and letting Harry Truman become President. It shows us FDR's final dinner, in April 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, at which the President and Morgenthau were still arguing over postwar Germany. Finally it shows how the unprepared new President Truman managed to pick up the pieces and push Stalin and Churchill to accede to a bargain that would let the Anglo-Americans block Soviet threats against Western Europe and ensure that the world would not have to fear another Adolf Hitler.
600 1 0 _aRoosevelt, Franklin D.
_q(Franklin Delano),
_d1882-1945.
_97917
600 1 0 _aTruman, Harry S.,
_d1884-1972.
_924665
600 1 0 _aMorgenthau, Henry,
_d1891-1967.
_924666
600 1 6 _aRoosevelt, Franklin D.
_q(Franklin Delano),
_d1882-1945.
_97917
600 1 6 _aTruman, Harry S.,
_d1884-1972.
_924667
600 1 6 _aMorgenthau, Henry,
_d1891-1967.
_924668
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zGermany.
_924669
650 0 _aReconstruction (1939-1951)
_zGermany.
_924670
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xDiplomatic history.
_9732
650 6 _aGuerre mondiale, 1939-1945
_zAllemagne.
_924671
650 6 _aReconstruction, 1939-1951
_zAllemagne.
_924672
650 6 _aGuerre mondiale, 1939-1945
_xHistoire diplomatique.
_924673
650 1 7 _aTweede Wereldoorlog.
_2gtt
_924674
650 1 7 _aWederopbouw.
_2gtt
_924675
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_y1933-1945.
_9737
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1933-1945.
_9736
651 6 _a�Etats-Unis
_xRelations ext�erieures
_y1933-1945.
_924676
651 6 _a�Etats-Unis
_xPolitique et gouvernement
_y1933-1945.
_924677
651 7 _a7.150.
_2gtt
_912139
651 7 _a4.415.
_2gtt
_924678
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051/2002030331.html
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/simon031/2002030331.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon031/2002030331.html
856 4 1 _3Sample text
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0645/2002030331-s.html
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