Season 1 – The U.S. and the Holocaust

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ed m @RT80499164 01/25/2023 Another great Ken Burns documentary. See more Richard B @Rboutside 01/11/2023 Unvarnished Truth Pulling no punches, Ken Burns tells the pitiful tale of the US and the Holocaust, and a sorry tale it is, drawing a straight line from Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh to Elon Musk and Donald Trump. It should surprise no one, that American racism was a part basis for German anti-Jewish laws. Just as we killed the Indians to get their land, Hitler planned to kill all Eastern European Jews on his way to taking over all the land up to the Urals. America First, which championed anti- war and anti-immigrant policies dominated America during the 1930's. Pro fascism was widespread in the USA until 1941 and elements in the State Department, Cordell Hull chief among them, stopped Roosevelt from opening up to change. Once Henry Morgenthau finally opened Roosevelt's eyes to State Department obstructionism, America changed tack - but it was already too late for 5 million Jews. The series is brilliantly written and edited, Peter Coyote's Henry Fonda impersonation is spot on, and all I can say is that, if you think you know this history, think again. Better still, spend 6 hours of your life on this exemplary documentary mini-series. See more Daniel K @RT89807693 09/23/2022 This six-hour examination of the U.S. relationship to what has come to be called the holocaust is an extraordinarily far-reaching and yet deeply intimate retelling of the fraught history leading up to, during and after World War II. From Hitler taking so much inspiration for his own xenophobic and murderous policies from the way America treated both Native Americans and Blacks, to the world's hesitation to take in fleeing refugees even AFTER the Nazi killing machine was well-known, this brilliant, must-see series reminds us of so much that we are, once again, at risk of repeating today. See more Read all reviews

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