December 1, 2025
Great Betrayal: Roosevelt’s Open Gates and the Axis Within (A Fictional Account)
By Kevin Finn
The following account is fiction:
As Allied forces clashed with the Axis powers in the summer of 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt bowed to intense pressure from progressive factions within his party.
Humanitarian advocates, labor unions, and idealistic reformers bemoaned the plight of civilians in Germany and nations sympathetic to the Axis who were caught in the crossfire of their regimes' aggression. They framed mass immigration as a moral imperative: a way to undermine fascism by siphoning away its human resources while showcasing America's beacon of liberty.
Overriding warnings from military intelligence and the State Department, Roosevelt launched the “Open Gates Initiative”, barely winking at vetting immigrants from Germany and its allies.
Between July 1942 and late 1944, millions of Germans and others sympathetic to their plight streamed into the U.S. and were granted instant residency without scrutiny of their backgrounds, affiliations, or loyalties. "In the forge of freedom," Roosevelt proclaimed in a radio address, "we shall melt away the chains of tyranny."
The influx was hailed as a triumph of compassion. But the melting pot soon boiled over into betrayal.
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