See Gerhard Weinberg, The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany, Diplomatic Revolution in Europe 1933-1936, p. 136 through 139:
"...The (US) bondholder was given the choice..." p. 137.
This choice was a Morton's Fork.
The FDR government, investors, and industries, financed and manufactured Nazi rearmaments and investments.
Weinberg's belief that FDR wanted to maintain good relations with Germany, implying he looked favorably on Germany in general, Hitler or no Hitler, before taking office, as much of the rest of the US had done before '33, is unwarranted.
FDR was personally repelled by Germans. His holidays spent there in the 20s were not about loving Germans at all. Beschloss, The Conquerors. One wonders why he chose to go there. Perhaps to hang with German internationalist socialists and communists, and their Stalinist backers. That would certainly have been his wife's preference.
FDR wasn't about negroes either, trust me, but the New Deal gives them no more basis for negro slave descendant reparations than anything else in their pathetic bestial and sordid quasi history and prehistory, and that number is zero basis.
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