Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932–1935

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Indiana University Press, 25. 4. 2007. - 881 страница
“[Chronicles] the efforts of this principled and persistent man to save Jews and others from the horrors of Nazism.” —Foreign Affairs

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 US 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 he resigned in protest at the lack of support for his work.

This is the eagerly awaited first of a projected three-volume work that will significantly revise the ways that scholars and the world view the antecedents of the Holocaust, the Shoah itself, and its aftermath.

“A compelling look at one man’s efforts to do something about a looming catastrophe. At times the book is inspiring—McDonald’s prescience and energy are simply amazing. But because we know what is soon to happen to Europe’s Jews, we share his frustration that no one seems to be listening. We feel what it was to be an advocate for the doomed.” —The Wall Street Journal

“The diaries show that McDonald believed as early as 1933 that the Nazis were considering the mass killing of Europe’s Jews.” —The New York Times

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Young Man from Indiana
1
Foreshadowing
10
The Nazi Revolution
22
American Reactions
54
Alerting Others
73
Lobbying for League Action
96
High Commissioner
121
A Bridge from Lausanne to Berlin
138
The League Keeps Its Distance
448
The Climate in Geneva
467
Criticism Is Easy
489
Grand Tour
536
A Request to the President
572
The Catholic Connection
592
A Diplomatic Maneuver
615
Brazil
632

Proposal for a Corporation
198
Washingtons Views
240
Testing GermanyFamily Crisis
280
Raising Funds
308
The Jewish Question in Europe
342
Emigration Options?
380
Turn for the Worse
402
Visit to the Saar
415
South American Survey
665
Regret and Relief
707
Downsizing
764
Liquidation Plans
776
Conclusion
790
INDEX
807
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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.

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