FDR and the year that changed history
The year 1944 was perhaps the most important year in the 20th century. American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt was at the pinnacle of his wartime leadership and his campaign for reelection, the planning of Operation Overlord (D-Day) with Britain's Winston Churchill and Russia's Joseph Stalin was in progress, Paris was liberated from Nazi Germany, the Battle of the Bulge took place, and numerous conferences on peace-time were starting. But millions of lives were still at stake as Roosevelt became fully aware of the true scope of the Final Solution -- the death of all Jews by the Nazis. Roosevelt's rapidly deteriorating health was a closely guarded secret as he was forced to make momentous decisions : was winning the war the best way to rescue the Jews? -- or was the actual bombing of the death camps the solution?.
