An Analysis of Michael Beschloss The Conquerors

World War II is one of the most intensively studied conflicts in history

and nearly sixty years after its end, new information is still emerging. The Conquerors describes the politics surrounding the war. The purpose of this book is to uncover the actions and strategies of First Franklin Roosevelt and then Harry Truman. This book allows the American people to hear private conversations and letters of historical giants.

A central theme in the book is the destruction of the idea of Hitlers’s Germany rather than the physical army. The physical army could have been dealt with in many ways. But the notion of what Germany stood for is what worried Roosevelt Bechloss discusses what actions will be taken against Germany after the war; if it will be divided or not and how to sufficiently reprimand them with out creating the kind of resentment that brought about Hitler. As allied forces fought Germany in public eye, Roosevelt and later Truman fought Churchill and Stalin in private on the best way to ensure that Germany can never threaten the world again. Roosevelt and Truman knew that to punish the German people to harshly would bring about the creation of another Hitler or possibly an allianc

The holocaust is an enormously complicated tragedy. Since we have 20/20 vision in hindsight we take it for granted that Germany will be defeated. But at the time it may not have been such a simple thing. As David Ben Gurion said in 1944 we do not know the entire truth about anything that is going on in Poland it was hard for the other countries of the world to know what they can and should be doing. Bechloss feels that the bombing of Auschwitz and other concentration camps would have both been a military and moral sound. He feels it it would have shown the Germans that American and many other countries were against the nazi regime. Again this is all in hindsight and no one can know the actual details that went into the decision making. Therefore while Bechloss believes that Roosevelt was remiss for not ordering the bombing its hard to make that call. ( Ovi- as Jews should we feel that Rooselvelt did the wrong thing by not bombing? Obviously I I think its wrong – its just we don’t really know any of the details… but I feel uncomfortable by not saying it is wrong. )

Bechloss believes that Roosevelt was reluctant to deal with the atrocities that were committed against the Jews by the Germans. By uncovering many of these hidden fact Bechl

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