The Conquerors

Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945

By: Michael R. Beschloss

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Paperback | 7 October 2003 | Edition Number 1

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A 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.

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The New York Times Book Review Vigorously written....This is history as it was spoken at the time, and there is not a dull page.

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Preface	p. ix
The Plot to Murder Hitler	p. 1
"Unconditional Surrender"	p. 9
"Fifty Thousand Germans Must Be Shot!"	p. 18
"On the Back of an Envelope"	p. 29
The Terrible Silence	p. 38
The "One Hundred Percent American"	p. 44
"Oppressor of the Jews"	p. 56
"We Will Have to Get Awfully Busy"	p. 70
"Not Nearly as Bad as Sending Them to Gas Chambers"	p. 82
"Somebody's Got to Take the Lead"	p. 91
"Christianity and Kindness"	p. 98
"It Is Very, Very Necessary"	p. 113
"Do You Want Me to Beg Like Fala?"	p. 121
"A Hell of a Hubbub"	p. 136
"As Useful as Ten Fresh German Divisions"	p. 150
"Lord Give the President Strength"	p. 166
"The Only Bond Is Their Common Hate"	p. 178
"Arguing About the Future of the World"	p. 189
"No Earthly Powers Can Keep Him Here"	p. 203
"What Will We Make of It?"	p. 216
"I Was Never in Favor of That Crazy Plan"	p. 226
"You and I Will Have to Bear Great Responsibility"	p. 238
"How I Hate This Trip!"	p. 247
"We Are Drifting Toward a Line Down the Center of Germany"	p. 260
"The Spirit and Soul of a People Reborn"	p. 271
The Conquerors	p. 283
Author's Note and Acknowledgments	p. 293
General Sources	p. 297
Notes	p. 315
Index	p. 361
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The Conquerors

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