America views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 : a brief documentary history /

America views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 : a brief documentary history /

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Author / Creator:	Abzug, Robert H.
Imprint:	Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, ©1999.
Description:	xv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The Bedford series in history and culture Bedford series in history and culture.
Subject:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Foreign public opinion, American. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Press coverage -- United States. Jews -- Public opinion. Public opinion -- United States. Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Sources. Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Foreign public opinion, American. Jews. Jews -- Public opinion. Press coverage. Public opinion. Public opinion, American. Germany. United States. History. Sources.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3617586

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ISBN:	0312218192 9780312218195 0312133936 9780312133931
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index.
Summary:	Were Americans heroic liberators of Nazi concentration camp victims at the end of World War II, or were they knowing and apathetic bystanders of unspeakable brutality and annihilation? This question has long haunted historians, who hotly debate what the United States knew about Hitler's gruesome Final Solution, when they knew it, and whether they should have intervened sooner. Wrapping historical narrative around 60 primary sources, including news clippings, speeches, letters, magazine articles, and government reports, this volume's three part organization chronicles what was unfolding in Nazi Germany through the lens of American reporters and writers, traces the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the US as well as its increasingly tight immigration policies, and then reveals Americans' horror upon the realization that the reports and stories of the Holocaust were not exaggerations or fabrications. An epilogue examines the complexity of historical interpretations and moral judgments that have evolved since 1945.

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Call Number:	D804.45.U55 A29 1999
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