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Source: http://nytimes.com/2004/04/22/politics/22diary.html
U.S. Diplomat Reported Nazi Discussion of Mass Killing of Jews in 1933
(New York Times) Neil A. Lewis - James McDonald, an American diplomat and the League of Nations high commissioner for refugees, believed as early as 1933 that the Nazis were considering the mass killing of Europe's Jews, a view he apparently shared with President Roosevelt, according to his previously unpublicized diaries. Richard Breitman, a historian of the Holocaust at American University, said that the McDonald diaries were not conclusive as to when the Nazis decided on the mass killing of European Jews, "but they remind people that the idea of killing Jews was there at the beginning of the Nazi regime."