What Did america do about the Holocaust?
I was talking with a fellow student about WWII and they brought up the Japanese Internment Camps. I thought to myself, "Hm, I wonder what the Jewish immigrants had to say about those. When I could find nothing on it, my mind changed tracks and I realized, what about America? What did they do about the Holocaust in Europe?
Website Number One/Holocaust Memorial Museum
This website is a .org. It has working links, and references to other sites. It was also updated in mid-2013. It also has all of its legal terms at the bottom.
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Website Number Three/History Channel
This site was updated this year. It is also very respected and is known for using historical facts. This site also has an author, and was updated this year. All of the links work as well.
This site was updated this year. It is also very respected and is known for using historical facts. This site also has an author, and was updated this year. All of the links work as well.
Answer
After carefully reading over these websites I found the answer to the question, "What did America do about the Holocaust?" Sadly, that answer is nothing. Little information of the Holocaust was given to the American people. It is not known to what extent the government was even aware. Some American Jewish leaders began to boycott German goods in protest of what they did know. Although it never reached the intensity of hatred in Germany, there were still many Americans who weren't very fond of Jews. Most of them were not pleased at all of the Jewish immigrants and believed that America could not support them and the Jews. It was unsure to most people whether or not the Holocaust was a rumor or truth. Due to this, the government did not want information to be released to the public in case that it was not true. Newspapers also failed to publicize the news in fear of it being false. So all-in-all, America did not really do anything to help the Jews in Germany during the Holocaust.