Extract from Israelitisches Wochenblatt, quoting Roosevelt on the deportation and "systematic murder" of European Jews, stating that those responsible will face punishment

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Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of U.S.)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

president of the United States from 1933 to 1945

Photograph by Leon Perskie, 1944
  • Born: 1882-01-30 (Hyde Park)
  • Died: 1945-04-12 (Little White House Warm Springs)
  • Country of citizenship: United States of America
  • Occupation: golfer; lawyer; politician; statesperson
  • Member of political party: Democratic Party
  • Military branch: United States Armed Forces
  • Position held: Assistant Secretary of the Navy (period: 1913-03-17 through 1920-08-26; replaced by: Gordon Woodbury; replaces: Beekman Winthrop); Governor of New York (period: 1929-01-01 through 1932-12-31; replaced by: Herbert Henry Lehman; replaces: Al Smith); Governor-General of the Philippines; President of the United States (elected in: 1932 United States presidential election, 1936 United States presidential election, ..., 1944 United States presidential election; end cause: death in office; period: 1933-03-04 through 1945-04-12)
  • Educated at: Columbia Law School (period: 1904-01-01 through 1907-01-01); Groton School (until: 1900-01-01); Harvard College

Israelitisches Wochenblatt (periodical, Zurich, Switzerland)

Date: 06 April 1944

Literal Title: "Israelitisches Wochenblatt" No. 14, p. 4. 6th April 44.

Defendant: Julius Streicher

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: M-205

HLSL Item No.: 452696

Notes:The exhibit number is provided by document D 839; Bundle B was presented on 29 April 1946.

Trial Issues

Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9) Deportation or expulsion of civilian populations from occupied territories…

"ISRAELITISCHES WOCHENBLATT"
No. 14, p.4. 6th April 44.
Extract from a speech by Roosevelt
"* * * The systematic murder of the European Jews continues hourly. * * * Anyone who knowingly participates in
the deportation of Jews, which leads to their death in Poland, will also have to share the punishment."