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The US and the Holocaust episode 3 - The Homeless, Tempest-Tossed

The US and the Holocaust episode 3 – The Homeless, Tempest-Tossed

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The US and the Holocaust episode 3 – The Homeless, Tempest-Tossed: First reports of the industrial scale of killing reach the United States. A group of dedicated government officials establish the War Refugee Board to finance and support rescue operations. As the Allies advance, soldiers uncover mass graves and liberate German concentration camps, revealing the full horror of the Holocaust. The danger of its reverberations soon become apparent.         Discover the gripping and powerful new three-part series, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” directed and produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein. The six-hour documentary takes […]

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The US and the Holocaust episode 2 - Yearning to Breathe Free

The US and the Holocaust episode 2 – Yearning to Breathe Free

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The US and the Holocaust episode 2 – Yearning to Breathe Free: After Kristallnacht, Germany’s Jews are desperate to escape Hitler’s tyranny. Americans are united in their disapproval of the Nazis’ brutality, but remain divided on whether and even how to act as World War II begins. Charles Lindbergh speaks for isolationists, while FDR tries to support Europe’s democracies. The Nazis invade the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust begins in secret.         The U.S. and the Holocaust is a three-part, six hour series that examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth

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The US and the Holocaust (Beginnings-1938) episode 1

The US and the Holocaust (Beginnings-1938) episode 1

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The US and the Holocaust (Beginnings-1938) episode 1: How the land of immigrants faced the reality of Holocaust refugees. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? Powerful documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. After decades of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts the United States to pass laws restricting immigration. In Germany, Hitler finds support for his anti-Semitic rhetoric, and the Nazis begin their persecution of Jewish people, causing many to flee to neighbouring countries or America. Franklin D Roosevelt and other world leaders are concerned by the growing refugee crisis, but they fail

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