Causes Of The Holocaust

On November 25, 1942, approximately three years after Hitler started World War II The New York Times ran their first report that the Nazis had created a policy to eradicate the Jews of Europe. This story, confirmed by the State Department, did not run on the front page. It appeared on page 10 (Ostrow). President Franklin Roosevelt could have made this a major issue, but he said and did nothing. Other popular magazines such as Time, Life, and Newsweek reported virtually nothing on this topic (Ostrow). The people of the United States preferred not to know. If the United States had not practiced an isolationist foreign policy rooted in anti-Semitism, the Holocaust death toll could have been reduced because the killing would have been limited.

There were a number of influential factors that played a role in the development of U.S constituent’s fears and thoughts about the Holocaust during the time periods. These thoughts and fears at the time dictated over U.S legislator and there ability to pass and make laws aiding Jewish refugees. One of the influential roles included the media because, during the Holocaust the press tried their best efforts to hide and mask the full persecution that Jews and non Aryans were facing (IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE ERA OF THE HOLOCAUST, 1). This served to be immoral in the eyes of the future public, because ignorance is not bliss it’s an illusion people portray to mask reality. With this ignorance in mind the constituents pushed their advocates to not pass laws, because they perceived this genocide as a minor inconvenience (IMMIGRATION). Ignorance leads to pain, and people being set in their ways such as laws.

Power, could there be too much of it? Or not enough? In the wrong hands, too much power lead to millions of innocent lives being taken away. One of the world’s most famous dictators takes power and has control on whether you live or die. He may not like the color of your hair, skin or what you believe in and for that, the price you pay is your life.

This research topic was on the New York Times coverage of the Holocaust. When first starting this report the idea of how the Holocaust was treated in the United States never truly came to mind. After doing a research project on it, the things that came up was some unbelievable stuff. The American reporting on the Holocaust was absolutely atrocious, in one of the biggest genocides in all of history, almost half of the American people didn’t even know about the Holocaust and still to this day most people don’t know much about it; One of the biggest newspapers out at this time failed in getting important information out to the American people, and the sad part about it all is that not only did the newspaper know about it, but the President of the United States as

Currently America honors those murdered by the Nazis with museums, monuments, and even a remembrance day. However during the Holocaust, under the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, America was reluctant to save the Jews from Europe. Six million Jews were systematically murdered through mass shootings, gas chambers, and in death marches. We might expect that as a model democracy, America would have made a great effort to rescue these Jews but that was sadly not what occurred. Due to America’s tradition of isolationism and a singular focus on achieving military victory, Roosevelt's attention to Jewish refugees in Europe during World War II can most accurately be characterized as a mix of missed opportunities and limited achievements.

The Holocaust was a very impressionable period of time. It not only got media attention during that time, but movies, books, websites, and other

During the Holocaust there was a lack of aid from America to those suffering in Europe. President at the time of the Holocaust, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had been leading a country of antisemitism, meaning to be against the Jewish. As mention in The Us and the Holocaust Project Group: Antisemitism page by Lauren Freeman, Antisemitism was habited with in Congress, and the general public of the United States; which will be further elaborated later in the paper.

The Holocaust was the worst genocide in history. The obstacles people went through would almost kill them. It is important people know about this topic so they do not make the same mistake again. Studies have shown that 5 in 10 millennials do not know about Auschwitz, let alone the Holocaust (CBS News). Many European countries have made Holocaust denial illegal. Obstacles were overcome in many Holocaust books/videos including PAPER CLIPS, multiple childrens books, THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS, and THE BOOK THIEF.

Let me answer a similar question first similar question “Why do we still care about the Holocaust? Why we teach the Holocaust in our history books?” Person from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum said “The Holocaust was not an accident in history; it occurred because individuals,

On November 25, 1942, approximately three years after Hitler started World War II The New York Times ran their first report that the Nazis had created a policy to eradicate the Jews of Europe. This story, confirmed by the State Department, did not run on the front page. It appeared on page 10 (Ostrow). President Franklin Roosevelt could have made this a major issue, but he said and did nothing. Other popular magazines such as Time, Life, and Newsweek reported virtually nothing on this topic (Ostrow). The people of the United States preferred not to know. If the United States had not practiced an isolationist foreign policy rooted in anti-Semitism, the Holocaust death toll could have been reduced because the killing would have been limited.

The Holocaust is a uniquely terrible dark stain on human history. The perfect storm of racism, a desperate country, and a charismatic leader with ill intentions that led up to the Holocaust are unrepeatable. The world has learned not to let a group of people or political party expressing ill intentions towards another to grow in the magnitude that the Nazis did. The world has recognize the horror of the Holocaust and taken preemptive action. Many countries have instituted laws to prevent similar prejudice fueled actions. The world is a much more connective place than it was back in the 1930’s. The spread of information and visual confirmation would induce action at even the smallest steps towards a second Holocaust. Despite many arguments saying

Mostly because the public did not know about the Holocaust going on. Hitler sent out propaganda videos which showed that the Jews were in “summer camps”. It showed the Jews having fun and being in a place with lots of food and activities. However, some in America did know about the events happening in Germany and chose to turn their head. It has been quoted as the direct failure of Franklin Roosevelt to not take action to help the Jews. The American president knew and chose to look the other way because he did not want to spend money to help the millions of Jews dying. Ideas such as bombing the rail system that brought victims to Auschwitz were simply just shot down with no further looking

So, to make the case of how America could have responded differently would be entirely ineffective. In today’s society many people can see the similarities between the Holocaust and the way we; as a country, treat others from foreign countries. From the Great Depression to the almost “Great Recession”, and the isolation America wanted from other countries to the Muslim Ban that recently had been implemented here within the U.S. Where Nazi Antisemitism and the American Antisemitism that occurs here on a daily basis towards other religious communities and cultures. The real question that needs to be asked is, what can America, and the people of America, do to prevent something like the Holocaust from ever happening

According to “The New York Times” 1994, Michael R. Kagay, published an article that stated that people were not even aware of the Holocaust, even so, people that knew or heard about the Holocaust denied that something like this would happen. Until recently people started to find out what really happened and students get to learn and study about the Holocaust, but there is still much more to learn. Holocaust has many more unknown mysteries and I’m going to see what people know and what they don’t know.

Almost anybody can agree that the Holocaust was one of the worst and most despicable acts in human history. If the Holocaust was somehow repeated, most people would want to try to do everything they could to help those who are affected. Most would also assume that Americans would have had this same attitude when the Holocaust occurred. However, this is a false assumption. There is no doubt that Americans helped correct the Holocaust. However, certain factors were preventing them from being able to do more. As a result of the government, the economy, and fear, the United States of America was unable to effectively safeguard the Jews from the atrocities of the Holocaust.