Holocaust In America

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Name Professor Course Date America Views on the Holocaust According to Abzug, many people are wondering whether Americans were heroic Nazi concentration camp liberators or pathetic bystanders to holocaust brutality and annihilation during the period 1933-45. This has been the subject of long debates on what the Americans knew about Hitler’s Final Solution to Jews Question. Nevertheless, there have been debates on what could have been the reaction of US if it had known the truth about the Nazi plan in advance and the reasons for them. Using primary sources from journalists of that time in Abzug’s America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History, this discussion explores the real context of the Holocaust situation…show more content…
They included Jews, anti-Nazi Germans, and the Slavic people. As in 1933, the documents show how the US State Department continued with its restrictive policy on foreigners. This is because the stock market had crashed, there was rising unemployment and everybody felt that the country lacked resources to continue accommodating new immigrants (Abzug 145). Despite this, natives of some American states reflected the growing attitude of anti-Semitism at that time. According to him, as recorded in the New York Times, American anti-Semitism although it had not reached the level of the Nazi Germany, pollsters estimated that they were being unfavorable to them (Abzug 25). Although there were numerous reports during pre-war, such as the enactment of Nuremberg Laws in 1935 by the German government, which were widely reported in the American press, they were denounced at large (Abzug 23). In the Kristallnacht enactment in, 1938, the Jews had their citizenship stripped making them…show more content…
At home, there had been anti-Semitic attitudes where the natives did not want more refugees in their country. The economic conditions during the prewar period made US not to encourage the letting in, of more people as refugees (Abzug 72). As such, there were widespread sentiments that the economy could not accommodate more people. From 1939 to 1941, most attention of the people had turned towards military events of that time. Most Americans were being confronted by what was appearing as the Nazi’s unchallenged conquest of entire
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