FDR and Policing the World: Hitler's Threat | PBS
Duration: 02:05
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American Experience
Broadcast Date: Dec. 22, 2011
In 1938, Roosevelt broadcast a personal appeal to Hitler, asking him to halt further aggression. In reply, Hitler ridiculed the president with withering sarcasm.
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