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1 online resource (348 pages)
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ISBN:
9780827618930
Content:
The first comprehensive volume to teach about America's response to the Holocaust through visual media, America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History explores the complex subject through the lens of one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Responses to Hitler's Rise -- America Hopes for a Restrained Hitler -- Document 1.1 "Just in Case He Goosesteps Too Much!" -- Dorothy Thompson Reports from Germany -- Document 1.2 "Starve, Humiliate, Degrade the Jew -- In Every Walk, Trade Profession, Nazi Pressure in Law and Slogan" -- The New York Times Interviews Hitler -- Document 1.3 "Hitler Seeks Jobs for All Germans" -- Boycotting German Goods -- Document 1.4 "No Trading with Germany" -- Hitler on Trial at Madison Square Garden -- Document 1.5 Hitler on Trial-Resolution and Verdict -- Further Reading -- 2. The American Mood -- Antisemitism in Congress -- Document 2.1 Representative John Rankin's Remarks before the House -- "Racial Science" Spreads -- Document 2.2 The Passing of the Great Race -- Father Coughlin and Hate Radio -- Document 2.3 Father Coughlin's Radio Address Concerning Kristallnacht -- Antisemitic Attitudes among the Public -- Document 2.4 Polls by Roper (1938) and Opinion Research (1940) on Antisemitic Attitudes -- Antisemitism in the State Department -- Document 2.5 Antisemitic Remarks by State Department Officials -- Further Reading -- 3. Doing Business with Hitler -- U.S. Participation in the Nazi Olympics -- Document 3.1 "To the Sport-Loving Public of the United States" -- Apologizing to Hitler -- Document 3.2 Secretary of State Apologizes to Hitler -- A Cabinet Member Participates in a Pro-Nazi Rally -- Document 3.3 "'Heil Hitler' Resounds as Steuben Society Denounces Boycott, Acclaims New Germany" -- Censoring Criticism of Hitler -- Document 3.4 FDR Objects to Secretary of the Interior's Criticism of Hitler -- FDR Urges "Quarantining" of Aggressor Nations -- Document 3.5 FDR's Quarantine Speech -- Further Reading -- 4. The Universities and the Nazis.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780827615182
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Medoff, Rafael, 1959 - America and the Holocaust Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society, 2022 ISBN 9780827615182
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
USA
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Judenvernichtung
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Zweiter Weltkrieg
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Einfluss
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Öffentliche Meinung
Author information:
Medoff, Rafael 1959-
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