Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust Six million Jews and another six million non-Jews were killed during the European Holocaust by a German dictator named Adolph Hitler. Hitler and the SS-Secret Service were prejudice against the Jews and anyone else that threatened the Aryan race. They humiliated and exterminated millions of Jews - this was Hitler's goal in life, "the final solution". The Jews only hope for survival was to have faith in the United States of America and its President, Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt-FDR. On December 11, 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States. This declaration brought