FDR played politics with lives of Jews.

• Position: The World Yesterday - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Brief article

In the historical novel Barred: The Shameful Refusal of FDR's State Department to Save Tens of Thousands of Europe's Jews from Extermination, Carl L. Steinhouse contends that the U.S. and other countries acted to bar Jews from emigrating and escaping the terrors of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Steinhouse describes the pretext that began World War II and the following six years of Hitler's unabated slaughter of innocents. He also features the heroic actions of Jews and gentiles who risked their lives under the German oppressors to bring news of the massacre to the free world.

These heroes, charges Steinhouse, faced resistance from the State Department and the British Foreign Office which, according to the author, took every measure to conceal, downplay, or outright deny what was happening in Europe. Various factors influenced these actions, including placating the Arabs, trying to prevent immigration of any nature to the free world by Jews, or simply furthering anti-Semitic agendas. "Barred tells about an American president...