America's Soul In the Balance: The Holocaust, FDRs State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy

At the height of World War II, lawyers in the U.S. Treasury Department discovered that the highly educated, patrician diplomats in the State Department had covered up reports of the Nazi extermination scheme—and then blocked the rescue of 70,000 Romanian Jews forcibly marched into the Nazi-conquered Ukraine and left to die of starvation and disease. The Treasury lawyers charged the diplomats with being "accomplices of Hitler."

The outrage of the Treasury lawyers—tough-minded New Dealers fro...