Argumentative Essay On The Holocaust

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: The Great Depression and World War II. He was the only president who served four terms and is mostly known for his ambitious New Deal programs and leading the United States from Isolationism to the victory over Nazi Germany. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was admired for his humanitarian actions, but yet shut Americas to Jews fleeing the Holocaust. Unfortunately, to little was done for the millions of European Jews who were trying to flee from persecution and death. If Roosevelt had been able to change the strict immigration laws and legislations of the 1930s with

The persecution of Jews in Germany started in 1933 when Hitler rose to power, while anti-Semitism has always been part of many cultures including Germanys. Anyone with a normal function mind was able to tell that something was different since Hitler was elected and that antisemitism was rapidly growing. This can be seen through the whole 1930s. In April of 1933 the SS called for a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. In September of 1935 the Nazis pass new laws making Jews second class citizens, revoking most of their rights and forbidding them form marrying or having sexual relations with “pure Germans”. In November 1938 Joseph Goebbels asked for a vicious assault on Jews known as the “Reich Kristallnacht”. At least 100 Jews were killed and 30,000 were arrested and send to concentration camps. President Roosevelt was informed on the growing refugee crisis in Europe by political leaders tied to the American Jewish Government, He acknowledged the threat and asked the State Department for “the most generous and favorable treatment possible under the laws of this country” for European Jews applying for Visas, but there were two major issues. The strict isolationism and immigrations laws in place and the state department not acknowledging the genocide that was happening in Europe. Even after Roosevelt took a more proactive stance on European refugees nothing had changed. In 1939 the SS