History Channel: FDR
Friday, June 2, 2023 9:21 PM
Anyone else watching “FDR” on the History channel this week?
For anyone even remotely interested in historical events, it was rather compelling television. Some topics they mentioned, I’m not sure if it’s revisionist history 80 years after the fact, or just stuff that textbooks didn’t write about it when I was school.
I was always taught that America didn’t have a knowledge of the Nazi concentration camps until Patton liberated Ohrdruf and Buchenwald. But the documentary makes a rather strong statement that the Allies were well aware of the camps and chose not to bomb them because of FDR’s (and American) anti-Semitism.
It’s likely we don’t have any TUSCL members that are old enough to remember living thru WW II but I’d like to know the depth of knowledge America really had
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