The French demanded that the United States provide France with a low-interest loan, assume and pay American merchant claims against the French, and lastly pay a substantial bribe to Talleyrand. The U.S. envoys were shocked, and also skeptical that any concessions would bring about substantial changes in French policy.
Joseph Goldhagens article on the holocaust. You could read a memoir of an SS officer called the death dealer the ss officer was the commander of aushwitz
