ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), as Governor, to F. W. Schaefer, Albany, 18 June 1932. 1 page, 4to, age-toned.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), as Governor, to F. W. Schaefer, Albany, 18 June 1932. 1 page, 4to, age-toned. WITH HITLER ON THE MARCH, FDR HOPES GERMANY “MAY FIND ITS WAY BACK TO SANITY AND STABILITY” Roosevelt—on the verge of gaining the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency—thanks a German correspondent in Wiesbaden “for taking me at my word and sending a full and frank report on the present internal conditions in Germany. The tragic condition of the German people as reflected in every class and group, is certainly a matter of keen distress to us all.” He asks Schaeffer to convey to Chancellor Franz von Papen “my fervent hope that a way may be found out of their difficulties and that the nation may find its way back to sanity and stability.” A tragically poignant letter in light of what followed in six months time. The Weimar Republic was crumbling under the instability caused by the Great Depression and the intensifying political violence, mainly from Hitler’s National Socialists. In January 1933, von Papen, his successor von Schleicher, President Hindenburg and their fellow misguided German elites, gave Hitler the powers of the Chancellorship, in the foolish expectation that power would undermine his popularity. But once he clasped his grip on the German state, he never let go until he plunged his nation—and the world—into a devastating war. Roosevelt, assuming the Presidency that same year of 1933, led his nation to the stability of economic recovery and helped lead the coalition that would ultimately destroy Hitler.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), as Governor, to F. W. Schaefer, Albany, 18 June 1932. 1 page, 4to, age-toned.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), as Governor, to F. W. Schaefer, Albany, 18 June 1932. 1 page, 4to, age-toned. WITH HITLER ON THE MARCH, FDR HOPES GERMANY “MAY FIND ITS WAY BACK TO SANITY AND STABILITY” Roosevelt—on the verge of gaining the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency—thanks a German correspondent in Wiesbaden “for taking me at my word and sending a full and frank report on the present internal conditions in Germany. The tragic condition of the German people as reflected in every class and group, is certainly a matter of keen distress to us all.” He asks Schaeffer to convey to Chancellor Franz von Papen “my fervent hope that a way may be found out of their difficulties and that the nation may find its way back to sanity and stability.” A tragically poignant letter in light of what followed in six months time. The Weimar Republic was crumbling under the instability caused by the Great Depression and the intensifying political violence, mainly from Hitler’s National Socialists. In January 1933, von Papen, his successor von Schleicher, President Hindenburg and their fellow misguided German elites, gave Hitler the powers of the Chancellorship, in the foolish expectation that power would undermine his popularity. But once he clasped his grip on the German state, he never let go until he plunged his nation—and the world—into a devastating war. Roosevelt, assuming the Presidency that same year of 1933, led his nation to the stability of economic recovery and helped lead the coalition that would ultimately destroy Hitler.
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