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Summary Of The Holocaust World Response By Gary Grobman

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The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy which consisted of the deaths of 6 million Jews. It started in 1933 and ended May 8th 1945. A man named Adolf Hitler decided that Jews were an unclean, unworthy race. He “relocated” the Jews to concentration camps and when there were too many to keep in the camps he either shot them or put them in the gas ovens. The American government decided that it wasn’t our place or fight and therefor hid it from the public. The American people were protected and unaware of what was happening to the Jews overseas.
The American government told a watered-down version of the truth about what was happening overseas. The government allowed very few articles about the massacre across the seas to be published, and when they did, it wasn’t the main article. According to the article The Holocaust:World Response by Gary Grobman, “these articles were only a few inches long, and were buried deep in the newspaper.” The people received only what the government wanted them to receive. The government itself was also at its wits end because it couldn’t help all of the jewish immigrants. “Despite the ongoing persecution of Jews in …show more content…

We as a country could not afford a war because of the great depression, “ the State Department's attitude was influenced by the economic hardships of the Depression”("The United States and the Holocaust"). It wasn’t until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor that we entered the war. FDR was negotiating with Japan and when negotiations got us nowhere we ceased the flow of supplies to them by mid summer of 1941. Japan was furious with us and therefore decided it was time to take us out. They made the mistake of bombing us which made us hungry for revenge. We then entered the war to protect our homeland (“Pearl Harbor”). Though many agree with this theory, some believe that we, Americans, have no heart and just wanted to see how it all played

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