immigration and policy even after the concentration camps were repealed jews were continued to revere roosevelt even with his policy did not emerge in tall much later after critical books are written in the late '60s. >>host: professor allan lichtman was there an opportunity in the '30's to change your of fact what was about to happen in germany? >> it would be very difficult to change the course of events. hitler had his own plan for world domination, his hatred of jews and persecution and slaughter was not a secondary that was primary to his ideology and his approach to the world people wondered why in the world with tens of millions dying and the fate of the world hanging in the balance why would they divert resources simply to hunting out it was hard for americans to understand but that was never a diversion from the war but a primary objective of the war to which you would devote resources to hunting down a people and exterminating them, men and women and children it was the primary goal of hitler and secondary to him. >>host: wear and were american policy makers aware of that? favor of we

juice continue to revere franklin roosevelt. the real severe criticism of fdr policy towards jews really didn't emerge until much later, to critical books were written in the late 1960s. >> host: professor, was there an opportunity in the 1930s to change or to affect what was about to happen in germany? >> guest: it would have been very difficult to change the course of events in germany. hitler had his own plan for world domination. he had his hatred of jews, and his persecution and ultimately slaughter of jews was not secondary. that was primary to his ideology and his approach to the world. people wondered, including in the united states, including high policymakers, why in the world during this terrible gg w ii, tens of millions of guy, the fate of the world hanging in the balance, would germany divert resources, enormous resources, simply to hunting out and killing jews. that was hard for americans to understand. but for hitler the killing of jews was never a diversion from the war. it was a primary objective of the war, to