02180nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200210008810000220010924500830013126000360021430000150025036500200026552015940028565000180187965000140189765000270191170000240193820211104095702.0211104b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0684810271  cAL  aeng  223a940.53bBESC  aMichael Beschloss  aConquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and The Destruction of Hitlers Germany 1941-1945  aNew YorkbSimon& Schusterc2002  axiv,377 p.  b26.95c$d26.95  aA New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors reveals how Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany.
With monumental fairness and balance, The Conquerors shows how Roosevelt privately refused desperate pleas to speak out directly against the Holocaust, to save Jewish refugees, and to explore the possible bombing of Auschwitz to stop the killing. The book also shows FDR's fierce will to ensure that Germany would never threaten the world again. Near the end of World War II, he abruptly endorsed the secret plan of his friend, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, to reduce the Germans to a primitive existence—despite Churchill's fear that crushing postwar Germany would let the Soviets conquer the continent. The book finally shows how, after FDR's death, President Truman rebelled against Roosevelt's tough approach and adopted the Marshall Plan and other more conciliatory policies that culminated in today's democratic, united Europe.
As Presidents Roosevelt and Truman led the United States in World War II in Europe, they dealt with the question of what kind of government should be imposed on Nazi Germany to ensure that Germany could never again drag the world into war. The Conquerors tells the story with much intimate detail and color of how FDR and Truman privately struggled in their own minds and with titanic allies like Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, through summits and secret messages, to answer that question.  aWorld History  aWorld War  aReconstruction Germany  aBESCHLOSS (Michael)