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Watching third and final episode of #USandTheHolocaustPBS. It points out that many US newspapers downplayed the Holocaust. A Black paper, the Pittsburgh Courier, was a notable exception.
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Gerhart Riegner, 30, a @WorldJewishCong representative, learned of Nazi plans for mass murder. On 8/8/42 he made a report at the US Consulate in Geneva. It made its way to Washington—with a cover letter saying the report seemed like “a war rumor.”
Some US officials reasoned that, even if the report was true, there was nothing to be done except try to win the war. Some of these officials were antisemitic.
Episode 2 of #USandTheHolocaustPBS opens in 1938 with Kristallnacht. Even Americans who didn’t want to let in Jewish refugees spoke out against the Nazi violence.
@deborahlipstadt: “This is a country seemingly going crazy. Seemingly completely out of control.”
@deborahlipstadt: “This is a country seemingly going crazy. Seemingly completely out of control.”
FDR recalled US ambassador to Germany—the only world leader to do so. He allowed Jews in US on tourist visas to stay.
In surveys at the time, Americans deplored the violence but opposed lifting the immigration quotas, which only Congress had power to do.
In surveys at the time, Americans deplored the violence but opposed lifting the immigration quotas, which only Congress had power to do.
Al Smith (D), Thomas E. Dewey (R) and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen denounced the Nazis’ violent persecution of German Jews.
Even in the midst of Depression, American leaders stood for human rights and freedom. Values that later animated presidents from JFK to Reagan.
Even in the midst of Depression, American leaders stood for human rights and freedom. Values that later animated presidents from JFK to Reagan.
Watching #USandTheHolocaustPBS is doubly painful. It reminds us of the fragility of democracy, at home and abroad, and of the consequences of failing to live up to our humanitarian ideals.
The film draws a powerful thread across slavery, Chinese exclusion, eugenics, antisemitism, immigration restrictions, Japanese incarceration.
Hitler saw parallels between US conquest of Native lands and herding of Indigenous people into reservations and his own conceptions of race war and lebensraum, as @TimothyDSnyder explains.
ONE has tried to stop #Koch since 1930s. US allowed Fred Koch to come back AFTER working for Stalin & Hitler. Steralization of #LGBT+ w/ ADF & SCOTUS #Barrett
#KochNetwork funded #Jan6 #Insurrection of #Fascism #DarkMoney
#USandTheHolocaustPBS
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#KochNetwork funded #Jan6 #Insurrection of #Fascism #DarkMoney
#USandTheHolocaustPBS
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1929-31 Fred Koch #KochNetwork Soviet Union building oil refineries for Stalin & Hitler Nazi Germany prior to WWII. Russia 1956 & Iraq 1958 just prior to Iraq Coup/Revolution. Prior to Soviet Union, worked in England. FBI Docs 👉 america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/… 👉 assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1237…
Iran-Contra Koch & Hayek Mont Pelerin Society member since 1970 - Pinochet & CLOSE ties to Milton Friedman direct help & Hayek several visits to Chilea late 70s & early 80s - specifically defended Pinochet’s regime & Peter Thiel
MISES #KochNetwork
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MISES #KochNetwork
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