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This is a C-span video that interviews the author of a book about FDR in regards to his involvement with collecting intelligence and attempts, both failures and successes of being influenced by various operatives.
And this is otherwise:
Roosevelt's fear of "offending" Stalin resulted in
his administration ordering that the German anti-Nazi resistance be totally disregarded.
16. One of the highest anti-Nazi Germans was the
chief of Nazi Germany's intelligence division, the Abwehr, Admiral Wm. Canaris. Try as he might, the Allies would not open communications channels with Canaris .
Britain's intelligence chief said this about Canaris:
'It is said that had it not been for the Foreign Office's fear of offending Russia that he might have established direct contact with the admiral [Canaris] in 1942 on the removal of Hitler as a means of shortening the war."
“Gen. Menzies, Ex-British Intelligence Chief, Dies,” New York Times, May 31, 1968.
Did you see the date: 1942. When did the war with Germany finally end?
"May 7, 1945: Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims"
Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims ? History.com This Day in History ? 5/7/1945
What prevented an earlier conclusion to the war?
"... fear of offending Russia..."
Fear of offending, it seems to me, suggests a relationship with one's superiors....
i.e., Roosevelt considered Stalin his superior.
17. "Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German admiral, and chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War,
he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.... "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris
a. A few weeks before the war ended,
Canaris was hanged by he Nazis. Hanged twice: "once to show him what death tasted like."
“Canaris Hanging Related,” New York Times, October 11, 1952.
More about the anti-Nazi that Roosevelt would not allow his commander to contact [a. "A SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) directive prohibited activities aimed at promoting German revolt against the Nazi regime.
The Allied doctrine of unconditional surrender meant that "... those Germans — and particularly those German generals — who might have been ready to throw Hitler over, and were able to do so, were discouraged from making the attempt by their inability to extract from the Allies any sort of assurance that such action would improve the treatment meted out to their country."
German Resistance to Nazism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
18. " The Chabad Lubavitch Hassidic movement has requested that Yad Vashem recognize Nazi Admiral Wilhelm Canaris as a Righteous Gentile. Chief of the Abwehr, the Nazi intelligence service, Canaris played a key role in saving the lives of the Chabad Rebbe Yitzhak Yosef Schneerson and his family along with an estimated 500 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 according to numerous testimonies..... the refusal of Yad Vashem and the Holocaust Studies establishment to recognize Wilhelm Canaris as a Righteous Gentile is
due to their concern that such recognition might open a can of worms on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration and its conduct during World War II..
Chuck Morse Speaks: The Canaris Cover-up
What have we learned? That at least as early as 1942 German anti-Nazis were ready to deal with the Allies to accomplish a surrender.
1942.
Roosevelt extended the war by some three years.......
....and how many American deaths....for 'fear of offending Stalin.'