Former US President Harry Truman described Jews as “very, very selfish” in newly-discovered diary notes that have surprised scholars.
“They [the Jews] care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as displaced persons as long as the Jews get special treatment,” he wrote in 1947.
"Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog.
"Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist, he goes haywire.
“I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.”
Truman’s remarks were found among 42 entries of a diary that had remained obscure in the Truman Library in Missouri for 38 years.
The apparent anti-Semitic tones have startled scholars as Truman - US President from 1945 to 1953 - is credited with helping bring about the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, despite opposition from his own Department of State.
“It did surprise me because of what I know about Truman’s record,” Sara Bloomfield, director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, told the Washington Post newspaper.
“Truman’s sympathy for the plight of Jews was very apparent.”
Ex US President Truman diary blasts Jews
Harry Truman described Jews as “very, very selfish” hmmmm intresting now how many other people have said that :bummer: