Advocate for the Doomed
The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935
By James G. McDonald; Richard Breitman (Editor); Barbara McDonald Stewart (Editor)
(Indiana University Press, Hardcover, 9780253348623, 838pp.)
Publication Date: June 2007
Categories: Holocaust
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The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886--1964) offers a unique andhitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Rooseveltadministration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for thepost of U.S. ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonaldtraveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power.Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany, in 1933 he becameLeague of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and sought aid from theinternational community to resettle outside the Reich Jews and others persecutedthere. In late 1935 he resigned in protest at the lack of support for hiswork.
This is the eagerly awaited first of a projectedthree-volume work that will significantly revise the ways that scholars and theworld view the antecedents of the Holocaust, the Shoah itself, and itsaftermath.
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