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War Department

Stimson, Henry L.


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Henry Stimson (1867-1950) served as secretary of war under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1940 to 1945. He often opposed U.S. action to aid Europe's Jews during the Holocaust. Stimson justified withholding equal rights from Jewish residents of Allied-liberated North Africa in 1943, citing the need...

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