American Experience S6 E6 - America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

American Experience

American Experience S6 E6 - America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
Jan 06, 2026 55 min Documentary Movies
6.6

Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from Kristallnacht in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945. For a short time, the U.S. had an opportunity to open its doors, but instead erected a "paper wall," a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a few Jewish refugees from entering the country. It was not until 1944, that a small band of Treasury Department employees forced the government to respond.