Filmmaker Ken Burns' latest documentary series, 'The U.S. and the Holocaust,' draws parallels to the recent rise in American nationalism and antisemitism.
Op-Ed: Americans fueled the rise of Nazis and the Holocaust. Will we learn from that shameful chapter?
Countless volumes have been written on the subject, and there will likely be more to come; it’s a complicated business, yet, in hindsight at least, also a simple one. The short story is that when it was most possible to help them, the United States — not alone among nations — failed the Jews of Europe, along with other refugees, because most of the country was simply disinclined to let them in, whether out of antisemitism or isolationism or a general antipathy toward immigration.
What’s more, Hitler saw his dream of territorial expansion as prefigured by American manifest destiny. “The immense inner strength of the United States came from the ruthless but necessary act of murdering native people and herding the rest into cages,” he wrote. And German jurists studied contemporary Jim Crow laws as a model for their own discriminatory legislation.
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