During his decade at the Treasury, Roosevelt’s friend [Morgenthau] had avoided Jewish matters. But the evidence from the death camps radicalized him. When Rabbi Wise, who had celebrated Morgenthau’s marriage to his wife Elinor, brought him a cable from Switzerland and other information about how Hitler’s Germans were murdering millions of Jews, Morgenthau had told him, “Please, Stephen, don’t give me the gory details.” Wise pressed on, explaining how the inmates’ remains were being made into soap. The Nazis, he said, were “making lampshades out of the skins of the Jews.”
As the Treasury Secretary’s confidential aide Henrietta Klotz recalled, her boss “grew paler and paler, and I thought he was going to keel over.
Morgenthau cried out, “I cannot take any more!”
Source:
Beschloss, Michael R. “The Terrible Silence.” The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. 43. Print.
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