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May 16, 2018

A Holocaust Museum Exhibit Goes Out of Its Way to Defend FDR

Other U.S. presidents protested anti-Semitism abroad.

According to its curator, a new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum titled Americans and the Holocaust aims to show—among other things—that “even the U.S. president faces constraints.” Yet to Rafael Medoff, the exhibit goes one step further and seems to exonerate Franklin D. Roosevelt for his indifference to the plight of Jews in Hitler’s Europe:

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