The US and The Holocaust

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, thousands of German Jews facing systematic persecution wanted to flee the Third Reich but found few countries willing to accept them. For refugees fleeing the Nazis, America’s immigration quotas, established in the 1920s and sustained by popular and Congressional support, made it extremely difficult to enter the United States.

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick join Dan to explore America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises in history. They discuss the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States and race laws in the American south.

This episode was produced by Hannah Ward and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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0:32.4	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dance Know's History.
0:34.1	It's very, very proud to have history legends back on the podcast.
0:38.7	Ken Burns and Lynn Novich, they need very little introduction indeed.
0:42.9	They have been making the world's best history documentaries for decades.
0:47.7	If you love history, there's a very good chance that you love it
0:51.4	because of the work that Ken Burns, Lynn and their team have produced over the years.
0:55.9	For me, it was the US Civil War series, which changed history broadcasting in the 1990s.
1:01.4	You've heard them on the podcast here before we talked about Hemingway.
1:03.9	Ken Burns came on to talk about the remarkable life of Franklin, the founding father,
1:08.2	scientist. They're back now to talk about a project that's been very, very central to them over the last seven or eight years.
1:14.7	And that's a big new series about the Holocaust, particularly about the USA and the Holocaust.
1:20.2	How did the US in some ways, I suppose, contribute, but certainly not do enough to ameliorate the horror
1:26.7	that was unleashed in the late 1930s and 1940s?
1:30.5	It's a very difficult subject this one.
1:32.1	When I was growing up at Lenny about the Holocaust, it was easy to compartmentalize.
1:35.0	It was easy to talk about an evil state, an evil mechanism elsewhere.
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