The Abandonment Of The Jews By David S. Wyman

There are two arguments stating that American could have done more to help the Jews during the Holocaust. “The Abandonment of the Jews” by David S. Wyman discusses how America and President Franklin D. Roosevelt could have done much to save the Jews since they did hardly anything. “FDR and the Jews” by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman discusses how President Franklin D. Roosevelt did everything in his presidency to save the Jews during the Holocaust. President Franklin D. Roosevelt did everything in his presidency to do as much to help the Jews as he could. “The Abandonment of the Jews” by Wyman, states that America and President Roosevelt could have done more to help the Jews since they had no intentions to. Wyman states, “President Roosevelt did nothing about the mass murder for fourteen months, then moved only because he was confronted with political pressures he could not avoid and because his administration stood on the brink of a nasty scandal over its rescue policies” (Wyman, 5) Wyman’s argument believes that the only reason America finally did do something was because of political pressures, and that he should have done something earlier.

Lichtman discusses how President Roosevelt did everything in his presidency to help the Jews out. Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman states, “Still, at times Roosevelt acted decisively to rescue Jews, often withstanding contrary pressures from the American public, Congress, and his own State Department” (Breitman and Lichtman, 6) “FDR and the Jews” argument believes that Roosevelt did everything he could but struggled because of all the anti-Semitic going on at the time. Roosevelt helped the Jews but it was often behind the scenes so no one would give any backlash or endangering his political