Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932–1935Indiana 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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... seemed perfectly natural for us to do so. My father sent me postcards of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose and Queen Mary with her neck encased in pearls. Later, after he became League High Commissioner, we got to make some trips ...
... seemed perfectly natural for us to do so. My father sent me postcards of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose and Queen Mary with her neck encased in pearls. Later, after he became League High Commissioner, we got to make some trips ...
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... seemed to reinforce each other. Widespread doubts about Germany's parliamentary system, fostered by Germany's illiberal nineteenth-century political traditions, grew stronger. Hitler's racial ideology (visible to all in his memoir and ...
... seemed to reinforce each other. Widespread doubts about Germany's parliamentary system, fostered by Germany's illiberal nineteenth-century political traditions, grew stronger. Hitler's racial ideology (visible to all in his memoir and ...
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... seemed to be so much more intense in the results of the Hitler election, etc., that the Far East never had a fair chance. Monday, March 20, 1933 Talks with Baerwald,6 Sulzberger,7 and Rosenberg8 about Hitler and the Jewish situation ...
... seemed to be so much more intense in the results of the Hitler election, etc., that the Far East never had a fair chance. Monday, March 20, 1933 Talks with Baerwald,6 Sulzberger,7 and Rosenberg8 about Hitler and the Jewish situation ...
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... seemed to anticipate great damage from Schacht, who is no friend of the Warburgs. Max, however, is still on the Board of the Reichsbank and has no intention of resigning unless forced to do so. As I prepared to leave, Erich stressed ...
... seemed to anticipate great damage from Schacht, who is no friend of the Warburgs. Max, however, is still on the Board of the Reichsbank and has no intention of resigning unless forced to do so. As I prepared to leave, Erich stressed ...
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... seemed to feel that they had established order and discipline and unity and that through them the lot of the average German might be better. She told me of the shift in the headship of her department, with the Nazis replacing the old ...
... seemed to feel that they had established order and discipline and unity and that through them the lot of the average German might be better. She told me of the shift in the headship of her department, with the Nazis replacing the old ...
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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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