10 Disturbing Facts About US Presidents

I hope you were all paying attention in the seminars, because there's some serious debate here.

As we all know (or should know), the Nazi regime orchestrated the mass deportation, detention and eventually slaughter of millions and millions of Jewish people, homosexuals, disabled people and other minorities groups in the 1930s and '40s.

One of the major turning points in the Second World War and the eventual end of the Holocaust was the United States' decision to enter the war in 1941. But what about the period before the US entered the war? And how different might things have been had they entered sooner?

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was famously against entering the US into the war or interfering in European affairs. Whilst he did allow Jewish citizens in the US to remain there instead of returning to Nazi controlled lands, he was unable to allow large numbers of Jewish immigrants into the country.

Whilst this was mainly down to his Senate, Roosevelt could be perceived as weak for not pushing the issue sooner. While he did eventually do this, it was too late for many Jewish citizens and the issue remains extremely controversial to this day.

This is a topic that can't be explained in just one slide, so do your own reading if you're interested, but this is an extremely murky area surrounding one who many see as one of the greatest Presidents of all time.