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<\/a>Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s funeral procession, 14 April 1945 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 12 April 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia—the so-called \u2018Little White House.\u2019<\/p>\n
America had lost the man who had steered the country through the Great Depression, and the world had lost the man who had taken centre stage in the most destructive war in history, one of the Big Three<\/a>, and a man who\u00a0had chosen sides from the outset\u00a0with Lend-Lease <\/a>and his famous \u2018garden hose\u2019<\/a> analogy.<\/p>\n Roosevelt died less than a month shy of seeing an end to the war in Europe, and four months before the Japanese would surrender and the world would enter the nuclear age.<\/p>\n ‘The Little White House’—Roosevelt’s home in Warm Springs, Georgia [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>Ever suspicious, Stalin suggested an autopsy to see whether the president had been poisoned.<\/p>\n Churchill cabled Eleanor Roosevelt, expressing sorrow at losing \u2018a dear and cherished friendship.\u2019<\/p>\n In the Fuehrerbunker<\/a>, Hitler was jubilant. He equated Roosevelt’s death to the death of the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, which had brought an end to the Seven Years\u2019 War and given a last minute victory to Frederick the Great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week in the war, on 12 April 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia—the so-called \u2018Little White House.\u2019 America had lost the man who had steered the country through the Great Depression, and the … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WLittleWhiteHouse-300x233.jpg\")
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