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US Response To The Holocaust

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The US response to the Holocaust was a very mixed one. On one side, the American public was misinformed about the brutalities of the Holocaust. On the other side, several government people were sympathetic towards the Jews. A few major polls were given to the American public during the Holocaust. In one of these polls, around 42 percent of Americans thought that the Germans violated the Jews due to their unfavorable characteristics. This, obviously untrue, statement shows how misinformed the American public was during the Holocaust about the harshness and laws such as the Nuremberg Laws. Another poll was given and the results showed that only 4 percent of the Americans knew that over 5 million Jews had been killed. (Response to the Holocaust

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