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1939, esp. pp. 220–60: lewy, The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany; and scholder,
Churches of the Third Reich.
48. FrUs, 1934, vol. ii, p. 275.
49. FrUs, 1933, vol. ii, pp. 310–11.
50. ibid., pp. 298–99.
51. FrUs, 1934, vol. ii, pp. 265–66.
52. On Barth, see FrUs, 1935, vol. ii, pp. 349–50.
53. FrUs, 1934, vol. ii, pp. 265–69.
54. FrUs, 1935, vol. ii, pp. 349–50.
55. ibid., pp. 358–60.
56. ibid., p. 361.
57. ibid., p. 372.
58. ibid., p. 375.
59. lewy, The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, pp. 130–32. see also scholder,
Churches of the Third Reich; and Conway, Nazi Persecution of the Churches.
60. FrUs, 1933, vol. ii, p. 322.
61. ibid., p. 329.
62. On this point, see Kershaw, Hitler, 1889–1936, pp. 471–72.
63. FrUs, 1933, vol. ii, pp. 323, 329.
64. Na, rG59, 862.4016/615.
65. Ford, “three Observers,” p. 460; stiller, George S. Messersmith, p. 40.
66. On Messersmith’s biography, see stiller, George S. Messersmith, pp. 1–13.
67. ibid., p. 35.
68. FrUs, 1933, vol. iii, p. 325.
69. Na, rG59, 862.4016/496.
70. ibid., 862.4016/1103.
71. ibid., 862.4016/496.
72. Moss, “George s. Messersmith and Nazi Germany,” p. 116.
73. FrUs, 1933, vol. ii, pp. 360–65. On the Nazi seizure of Jewish assets, see
aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries.
74. Moss, “George s. Messersmith and Nazi Germany,” pp. 117–18; stiller,
George S. Messersmith, pp. 61, 92.
75. stiller, George S. Messersmith, pp. 59, 118.
76. FrUs, 1937, vol. i, pp. 140–45; stiller, George S. Messersmith, pp. 117–19.
77. FrUs, 1933, vol. ii, p. 327.
78. ibid., pp. 327–28.
79. the most sophisticated discussion of this issue is in arad, America, Its Jews
and the Rise of Nazism.
80. On Hull’s reaction to Wise’s visit, see Na, rG59, 862.4016, 155a. in late
1936, Wise met with President roosevelt in an attempt to convince him of the pre-
carious situation of German Jewry, but the president thought the reports on Nazi
brutality were exaggerated. see Friedländer, Nazi Germany, vol. i, pp. 180–81.
81. Na, rG59, 862.4016/328. the appeals and petitions are located in several
boxes under Na, rG59.
82. the messages are in Na, rG59, 862.4016/328, rG59, 862.4010/1066, rG59,
862.4016/53, rG59, 862.4016/71, and rG59, 862.4016/939.