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May 1, 2018

Franklin Roosevelt’s Plan for Ensuring the Jews Were “Spread Thin All over the World”

The “M Project.”

Anticipating that World War II would leave in its wake millions of refugees, among them no small number of Jews, FDR in 1942 ordered his confidant John Franklin Carter to devise a top-secret plan to distribute these refugees across the globe, informing him that anyone who leaked information about the plan would “suffer guillotinally.” Steve Usdin explains how this endeavor, known as the “M Project,” developed:

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