詹姆斯·G·麦克唐纳（James G.McDonald，1886-1964）的私人日记为纳粹政权的早期历史以及罗斯福政府对纳粹迫害德国犹太人的反应提供了一个独特且迄今未知的来源。1932年，罗斯福总统上任伊始，麦当劳就被考虑担任美国驻德国大使，并在纳粹上台后不久前往德国与希特勒会面。1933年，由于担心纳粹意图驱逐或摧毁德国境内的犹太人，他成为国际联盟难民事务高级专员，并寻求国际社会的援助，以便在德国以外的地方重新安置犹太人和其他受迫害的人。1935年底，他辞职，以抗议自己的工作得不到支持。
这是一部期待已久的三卷著作中的第一部，该著作将极大地改变学者和全世界对大屠杀前因、沙阿本身及其后果的看法。
Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932–1935
The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886–1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration’s reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of U.S. ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR’s presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany, in 1933 he became League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and sought aid from the international community to resettle outside the Reich Jews and others persecuted there. In late 1935 he resigned in protest at the lack of support for his work.
This is the eagerly awaited first of a projected three-volume work that will significantly revise the ways that scholars and the world view the antecedents of the Holocaust, the Shoah itself, and its aftermath.
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