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If President **Roosevelt** decided to not agree with Henry **Morgenthau** in creating the War Refugee Board (WRB), he would of left the United States' State Department in charge of the refugees. As you read before, the State Department had refused earlier plans to help the Jews in Germany and had said that the best way to help the Jews was to win the war as quickly as possible. If the State Department passed the past plans by Congress, then some of the Jews could have been saved. Some of the members of the State Department during this time include: Archibald MacLeish, William Clayton, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and James C. Dunn. With his idea being rejected, Morgenthau could have decided that the public should know of the situation in Germany and help persuade the government's decision in helping the Jews. This would put a lot of pressure on President Roosevelt and may also bring down his reputation. Also the longer we don't do anything to help stop Hitler, the stronger he wil get and the larger the number of people killed. Through time, a lot more people would have been murdered through the genocide, leading to the complete rule by Hitler and his team of Nazi's. Germany would have gone through complete reformation and education about the Nazi's and Jewish religion. Even though America believed in freedom of religion, Germany's beliefs would have spread due to immigration. As Germans fled to America, different opinions of people would have collided leading to problems in the U.S. As time went by, crime rates would go up and more people would feel less safe and want to leave the place they knew and loved. America, along with Germany, would no longer be what people remembered and would be forced to mold into this imperfect version of Hitler's "perfect" world.

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