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1. Americans and the Holocaust
Americans and the Holocaust Holocaust history raises important questions about what Europeans could ... the American people know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What responses were possible? And
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2. Americans and the Holocaust
Americans and the Holocaust By the time Nazi Germany forced the world into war, democratic ... than 400,000 Americans died. The American people—soldiers and civilians alike—made enormous
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3. American Newsreels
newspapers, and magazines, shaped how Americans understood the world in the era before television. The ... American Newsreels During the 1930s, 80 million Americans—nearly two-thirds of the country ... in American theaters between 1934 and 1938.
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4. Americans Who Dared
before and during the Holocaust. ... Americans Who Dared “I am most grateful . . . to all refugees who revealed high courage while
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5. Attacks on Jews Shock Americans
Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, an event known as Kristallnacht. Units of the ... shops. Nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. American newspapers ... covered the Nazi terror attack against Jews in banner headlines on their front pages, and articles about ... unleashed a series of attacks against the Jewish population in Germany and its recently incorporated
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6. Could the Allies Have Stopped the Killing?
that time, the Germans had opened six killing centers in Nazi-occupied Poland and already had murdered ... film shows the movement of Allied troops between 1942 and 1945 and the location of the killing centers.
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7. Boycott the Olympics?
Boycott the Olympics? Violating Olympic Rules? As the 1936 Olympics in Berlin neared, Americans ... debated whether to boycott the Games as a protest against Nazism, with 43 percent of Americans supporting ... political concerns where they did not belong and suggested that the boycott movement was orchestrated by a ... Jewish-led conspiracy of “radicals and Communists.” In December 1935, the Amateur Athletic Union narrowly
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8. The St. Louis
Havana, the passengers learned that the landing certificates they had purchased were invalid, and the ... sent telegrams to loved ones and public officials in the United States pleading for assistance. But ... they did not have entry visas, and the US government did not allow the passengers to land. What ... Hemisphere, the ship sailed back to Europe. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee aid organization
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9. Nazism in the News
Nazism in the News American newspapers reported frequently on Hitler and Nazi Germany throughout ... the 1930s. At least 2,000 daily newspapers were printed in the United States in 1933, and most ... American households received one. US press coverage included reports on the Nazis’ persecution of Jews ... Communists, and other political opponents. Yet American readers could not imagine that this persecution would
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10. This Is the Enemy
This Is the Enemy Americans understood Nazism as an enemy of American values and a direct threat to ... Americans’ safety. Materials created to encourage Americans to support the war effort rarely mentioned the ... Nazi regime’s ongoing persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews. Explore how Americans saw their wartime
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11. The Challenges of Escape
Most also had to find an American financial sponsor who had the resources to guarantee they would never ... persecution, and did not adjust the immigration laws in the 1930s or 1940s. The waiting lists for US immigrant
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12. The Refugee Crisis
newsreels depicting Germany’s annexation of Austria and the Evian Conference. ... The Refugee Crisis Germany’s sudden annexation of Austria (Anschluss) in March 1938 brought
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13. What Could the United States Have Done?
United States could have publicized information about Nazi atrocities, pressured the other Allies and ... neutral nations to help endangered Jews, and supported resistance groups against the Nazis. Prior to the
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14. The Spread of Antisemitic Hate Throughout World
’ hopes, fears, and prejudices. The Nazis drew on existing anti-Jewish prejudice to whip up hatred and ... Jews as the key figures behind Stalinist rule and its brutalities. In the Middle East, it depicted the ... and American “imperialists.”
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15. Propaganda in the Face of Defeat
retreat. On June 6, 1944, British and American troops landed en masse on the Normandy beaches in France ... and advanced toward the German border. In spite of huge military losses on the battlefield, Hitler ... refused to surrender. The regime responded to impending defeat with increased terror and intensified ... War II in Europe and North Africa. It also ended the Third Reich.
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16. Deceiving the Public: Nazi Concentration Camps
international opinion, the SS arranged carefully managed visits for US reporters and American diplomats. The ... as Dachau. To hide the brutality that went on there, local and national German newspapers printed ... visits were meant to demonstrate that the prisoners were well treated and being reeducated for productive ... lives. By the late 1930s, the Nazi concentration camp system had expanded throughout Germany and German
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17. War!
in it—all the way. Every single man, woman, and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking ... War! On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise aerial assault on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl ... Harbor, Hawaii. Two days later, President Roosevelt told Americans: “We are now in this war. We are all ... of our American history.”
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18. In 1942 . . .
most of 1942 fighting Japan in the Pacific and preparing to battle Nazi Germany. Two million women ... entered the workforce. Fewer than five percent of Americans were unemployed. The US Army was racially ... segregated, and African Americans launched a “Double-V” campaign to fight for victory against fascism abroad ... and against racism at home. Nearly half of Americans believed that Jews had “too much power and
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19. Pressure to Act
challenged both the US government and American Jewish leaders to take decisive action to save European Jews ... American Jews remained divided about how much pressure to exert on the federal government to take special ... action to rescue Jews. Two non-Americans, Jan Karski and Peter Bergson, played prominent roles in trying ... Polish underground resistance, witnessed the horrors suffered by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and in a
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20. In 1938 . . .
wanted to keep refugees out of the United States. More than 100 African Americans had been lynched ... for their own persecution. Germany expanded its territory by annexing Austria in March and the ... Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in September. The peacetime US Army ranked 17th in the world, both in size and ... combat power. The United States and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-41 Learn more about US responses to the
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21. Public Reports of Murder
Public Reports of Murder Although war news dominated American publications, newspapers and ... and there was very little visual evidence of the crimes to print. Yet the crux of the story—that Jews ... available to the American public. Many American readers may have dismissed these reports, remembering ... exaggerated stories of German atrocities during World War I. Read some of the stories in the American press
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22. Citizens or Enemies?
concluded that the war powers of Congress and the president justified forcibly detaining American citizens ... security concerns, the US government used that order to relocate more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ... Thousands of people of German and Italian descent also were detained and questioned as a result of the ... executive order. Japanese Americans challenged curfew, evacuation, and detention restrictions in US courts
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23. War Refugee Board
War Refugee Board “We have talked. We have sympathized. We have expressed our horror. The ... time to act is long past due.” —John Pehle, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury ... January 15, 1944 The establishment of the War Refugee Board (WRB) marked the first time the US government ... adopted a policy of trying to rescue victims of Nazi persecution. The WRB coordinated the work of both US
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24. State Department Obstruction Exposed
avoid any increase in public pressure to aid Jews and thought that if the American people did not have ... information about the atrocities, they would not protest. In April, US and British representatives met in ... bipartisan resolutions in the House of Representatives and Senate calling for President Roosevelt to create a ... Department staff investigated the State Department’s delays and obstruction in sending relief into Europe to
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25. Not a Governmental Affair
Not a Governmental Affair “It has been a favorite pastime of the SA men to attack the Jews and one ... Messersmith, US Consul General, Berlin, July 26, 1933 American diplomats in Germany were well aware of the ... Nazi persecution of Jews and political opponents. Yet the US government respected Germany’s right to ... spring 1933, tens of thousands of Americans signed petitions protesting the Nazis’ treatment of Jews