A 1943 poll showed half of U.S. respondents thought the fact that million of Jews had been murdered was a rumor. By 1944, three-quarters believed Nazi concentration camps were real, but that hundreds of thousands, at most, were killed. The State Department misled Congress and the American people. Today, ignorance of the Holocaust is rampant, especially among millennials and Gen Z. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long lied about Nazi atrocities and the number of refugees admitted to the U.S.
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn before the Nazi slaughter begins
