Morgenthau was pained to find General Eisenhower’s attitude toward [Jewish] refugees [seeking asylum in the US] “no different” from that of the British – namely that “this thing is a damned nuisance.” Morgenthau’s close aide Harry Dexter White replied that the American government’s attitude toward the refugees was “worse than that of the British because it is covered by hypocrisy. We don’t shoot ‘em. We let other people do that. We let them starve!”
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Since the start of the war, Morgenthau had quietly and cautiously tried to help Jewish refugees. But after he learned the full truth about the Nazi death factories and how Long and other American officials had slammed the door on the possibility that the doomed Jews of Europe might be somehow rescued, something in him snapped.
Source:
Beschloss, Michael R. “The ‘One Hundred Percent American.’ ” The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. 54. Print.
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