America and the Holocaust: a documentary history
"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 100 important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues"-...
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix i. Responses to Hitler’s Rise i America Hopes for a Restrained Hitler document l.i “Just in Case He Goosesteps Too Much!” շ Dorothy Thompson Reports from Germany document 1.2 “Starve, Humiliate, Degrade the Jew; In Every Walk, Trade Profession, Nazi Pressure in Law and Slogan” 4 The New York Times Interviews Hitler document 1.3 “Hitler Seeks Jobs for All Germans” 7 Boycotting German Goods document 1.4 “No Trading with Germany” 9 Hitler on Trial at Madison Square Garden document 1.5 Hitler on Trial—Resolution and Verdict 12 Further Reading 15 2. The American Mood Antisemitism in Congress document 2.1 Representative John Rankins Remarks before the House 16 17 “Racial Science” Spreads document 2.2 The Passing of the Great Race 18 Father Coughlin and Hate Radio document 2.3 Father Coughlins Radio Address Concerning Kristallnacht 20
Antisemitic Attitudes among the Public 23 2.4 Polls by Roper (1938) and Opinion Research (1940) on Antisemitic Attitudes document Antisemitism in the State Department 25 2.5 Antisemitic Remarks by State Department Officials document Further Reading 27 28 3. Doing Business with Hitler U.S. Participation in the Nazi Olympics document 3.1 “To the Sport-Loving Public of the United States” 28 Apologizing to Hitler 32 3.2 Secretary of State Apologizes document to Hitler A Cabinet Member Participates in a Pro-Nazi Rally 35 3.3 ‘“Heil Hitler’ Resounds as Steuben Society Denounces Boycott, Acclaims New Germany” document Censoring Criticism of Hitler 37 3.4 FDR Objects to Secretary of the Interiors Criticism of Hitler document FDR Urges “Quarantining” of Aggressor Nations document 3.5 FDRs Quarantine Speech 40 Further Reading 43 4. The Universities and the Nazis Nazi Ambassador Speaks at Columbia document 44 45 4.1 “Luther Calls Hitler Critics Old-Timers’” Nazi Official Visits Harvard document 48 4.2 “Render unto Caesar” A Nazi University Celebrates document 49 4.3 “Heidelberg” vi
American Students in Nazi Germany document 4.4 “Germany Discussed by One Who Spent Junior Year There” 51 Abandoning Refugee Scholars document 4.5 Hamilton College President’s Letter Regarding Hiring Refugee Scholars 54 Further Reading 56 5. U.S. Immigration Policy 57 Immigration Statistics document 5.1 “Annual Quotas and Quota Immigrants Admitted, Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1925 to 1944, by Countries” 58 When Anne Frank Tried to Come to America document 5.2 Anne Franks Father Asks American Industrialist to Help the Frank Family Immigrate 61 “Postpone and Postpone and Postpone” document 5.3 The Assistant Secretary of State on Ways to Obstruct Immigration 64 The “Close Relatives” Rule document 5.4 U.S. Immigration Regulation Regarding Applicants Leaving “Close Relatives” Behind 66 Albert Einsteins Plea to the First Lady document 5.5 Albert Einstein Asks the First Lady to Oppose New Immigration Restrictions 68 Further Reading 70 6. Searching for a Haven 71 James McDonald Resigns in Protest document 6.1 Resignation of the High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany 71 Eyewitness to Horror document 6.2 “Jews Humiliated by Vienna Crowds” 74 The Evian Conference document 6.3 Refugee Problem Announcement in Preparation for the Evian Conference 76 vii
Suicide of a Jewish Refugee 79 6.4 “Ends Life to Escape Return to Germany” document FDR Responds to Kristallnacht 81 6.5 President Roosevelts Statement Concerning the Kristallnacht Pogrom document Further Reading 84 7. The Doomed Journey of the St. Louis Offer of Haven in the Virgin Islands 85 87 7.1 “Virgin Islands Too Offer Haven for Oppressed Jews” document A Child Appeals to the First Lady 88 7.2 Eleven-Year-Old Beseeches the First Lady to Accept the Refugees document St. Louis Passengers Appeal to the White House 90 7.3 St. Louis Captains Log Record of Passengers’ Telegram to the White House document Secretaries of State and Treasury Discuss the St. Louis 92 7.4 Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury Confer on the St. Louis document “The Saddest Ship Afloat” document 94 7.5 “Refugee Ship” 97 Further Reading 8. The Wagner-Rogers Bill to Save Children 98 98 The Wagner-Rogers Bill 8.1 Text of the Wagner-Rogers Bill (H.R.J. Res. 165 and 168) document “20,000 Ugly Adults” 102 8.2 Remark by FDRs Cousin against Wagner-Rogers document President Roosevelts Position 104 8.3 FDRs “File No Action” Note on Wagner-Rogers document viii
Helen Hayes Testifies for Admitting Children 106 8.4 “First Lady of the American Theater” Testifies for Admitting German Refugee Children document Agnes Waters Testifies against Admitting Children 108 8.5 “Mother Witness” Testifies against Admitting German Refugee Children document Further Reading 112 9. American Rescuers 113 The State Department Rebuffs Varian Fry document 114 9.1 “You Should Inform Dr. Bohn and Mr. Fry” The Krauses Rescue Fifty Children from Germany and Austria document 117 9.2 Erika Tamars Passport to America The Sharps’ Rescue Mission in Czechoslovakia 120 9.3 Martha Sharps Recollections about Rescue Work in Czechoslovakia document Lois Gunden Shelters Children in Vichy France 123 9.4 Recollections of Hiding French Jewish Children from the Nazis document Roddie Edmonds Shields Jewish gis from the Nazis 125 9.5 Testimony Regarding Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds’s Bravery document Further Reading 128 10. Genocide Confirmed 129 The Bund Report 130 10.i “Report of the Bund Regarding the Persecution of the Jews—May 1942” document The Riegner Telegram 132 10.2 Gerhart Riegners Telegram Revealing the Nazis’ Annihilation Plan document The Sternbuch Telegram 135 10.3 The Sternbuch Telegram Revealing Additional Details of the Mass Murder document ix
The Allies’ Declaration 137 10.4 “German Policy of Extermination of the Jewish Race” document Jan Karski Reports to President Roosevelt 139 10.5 A Polish Underground Couriers document 1943 Conversation with President Roosevelt Further Reading 141 11. All the News the Media Could Fit 142 The New York Times on Babi Yar 142 11.1 Two Reporters’ Contrasting document Accounts of the Babi Yar Massacre The Media and the Allies’ Declaration 145 11.2 U.S. News Media’s Coverage of document the Allies’ Declaration on the Mass Murder The Media and the Deportations from Hungary 147 11.3 “Jews in Hungary Fear Annihilation” document 150 The Nation Urges Rescue 11.4 “While the Jews Die” document I. E Stone Investigates document 11.5 “Justice Department Immigration Figures Knock Long Story into Cocked Hat” Further Reading 155 12. American Christian Responses Rabbi Wise Pleads with Christian Clergy 156 156 12.1 Meeting of Rabbi Wise and Christian Clergy, 1933 document The U.S. Catholic Press on Kristallnacht document 158 12.2 “Nazi Atrocities and the American War Fever: Are We Preparing for War with Germany?” Christian Century Doubts the Holocaust document 12.3 “Horror Stories from Poland,” “From Rabbi Wise,” “From the Editors” x 161
Jewish and Christian Students Speak Out document 12.4 On Implementing Brotherhood” 164 A Baptist Farmers Gesture document 12.5 “Farmer Rogers, His Brothers Keeper” 167 Further Reading 170 13. American Jewish Responses 171 The President and the Rabbi document 13.1 Rabbi Wises Student Questions His Relationship with FDR 171 Jewish Leaders Appeal to the President document 13.2 “Report on the Visit to the President” 173 Jewish Congressmen Meet with the President document 13.3 “Minutes of Dinner Meeting on Wednesday Evening March 22nd at the Statler Hotel” 176 “If They Were Slaughtering Horses” document 13.4 “Confidential Memorandum of Rabbi Meyer Berlin” 179 Jewish Leaders Discuss Strategy document 13.5 Meeting of Jewish Leaders Concerning Rescue Advocacy 181 Further Reading 184 14. The Bermuda Conference 181 A Jewish Proposal for Bermuda document 14.1 “The Following Proposals Are Respectfully Submitted” 186 Announcement at the End of the Conference document 14.2 “Report of the Bermuda Meeting on the Refugee Problem” 190 Congressman Emanuel Cellers Response document 14.3 Response to Bermuda 192 A Jewish Leaders Response document 14.4 “The Mockery at Bermuda” 195 xi
“An Appeal to the Conscience of the World” document 14.5 “I am taking the liberty of addressing to you, Sirs, these my last words” 198 Further Reading 200 15. Obstacles to Rescue 201 Congressional Sympathy document 15.1 Text of the Barkley Resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 9) 202 A Cartoonist Challenges the State Department document 15.2 “Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8b, for Consideration” 203 FDR on “Rescue through Victory” document 15.3 “Speech of the Honorable A. A. Berle Jr.” 205 The Allies’ Declaration in Moscow document 15.4 “Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security” 207 Empty Ships for Refugees document 15.5 “Shipping for Refugees” 210 Further Reading 213 16. The Campaign for Rescue 214 The Bergson Groups “Race against Death” document 16.1 “This Is a Race against Death” 214 The Rabbis’ Petition to FDR document 16.2 “In the Name of God, Creator of the Universe” 217 Congressional Resolution on Rescue document 16.3 Text of the Gillette-Rogers Resolution (H. Res. 352) 221 Breckinridge Long’s Testimony document 16.4 “Statement of Hon. Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State” 223 xii
Exposing the State Department document 16.5 “Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews” 226 Further Reading 229 17. Zionism and the Holocaust 230 The White Paper document 17.1 Excerpt from “Palestine Statement of Policy Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty” 231 A Christian Zionist Speaks Out document 17.2 “The Fifth Freedom” 234 Proposed Anglo-American Statement document 17.3 “Statement for Issuance by the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom Regarding Palestine” 237 1944 Republican and Democratic Party Platforms document 17.4 Republican Party Platform of 1944 and Democratic Party Platform of 1944 240 FDRs 1944 Statement on Zionism document 17.5 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelts October 1944 Statement Regarding Palestine 242 Further Reading 245 18. The War Refugee Board 246 Creation of the War Refugee Board document 18.1 “Executive Order No. 9417 Establishing a War Refugee Board” 247 A Presidential Warning document 18.2 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelt’s March 24,1944, Statement Regarding Nazi Collaborators 250 xiii
254 A Surprising Poll 18.3 Gallup Poll Findings Concerning Temporary Admission of Refugees document Rescuing Romanian Jews 257 18.4 Life Line to a Promised Land document Raoul Wallenbergs Mission 260 18.5 With Wallenberg in Budapest document Further Reading 263 19. Bombing Auschwitz 264 The Auschwitz Escapees’ Report 265 19.1 “The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oswięcim) and Birkenau in Upper Silesia” document A Plea to Bomb the Railways document 268 19.2 Diary of Jacob Rosenheim A Plea to Bomb the Gas Chambers 270 19.3 World Jewish Congress Official Urges Assistant Secretary of War to Bomb Gas Chambers at Auschwitz and Nearby Railways document The War Departments Rejection Letter 273 19.4 Assistant Secretary of War Rejects Proposal to Bomb Railways to Auschwitz document 275 A Public Appeal for Bombing document 19.5 “Last Chance for Rescue” Further Reading 278 279 20. Liberation 281 A gi Encounters the Holocaust document 20.1 Liberation of Dachau Eisenhower Urges Media to See the Camps 283 20.2 Call for Prominent Witnesses to “Conditions of Indescribable Horror” document Marlon Brando, Holocaust Witness document 20.3 A Flag Is Born Play xiv 285
An American Chaplain in Buchenwald document 20.4 An American Chaplain Encounters Survivors in Buchenwald 288 The Harrison Report document 20.5 “Report of Earl G. Harrison” 290 Further Reading 293 State of the Field 294 Notes 305 Bibliography Index 311 317 XV
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Contents Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix i. Responses to Hitler’s Rise i America Hopes for a Restrained Hitler document l.i “Just in Case He Goosesteps Too Much!” շ Dorothy Thompson Reports from Germany document 1.2 “Starve, Humiliate, Degrade the Jew; In Every Walk, Trade Profession, Nazi Pressure in Law and Slogan” 4 The New York Times Interviews Hitler document 1.3 “Hitler Seeks Jobs for All Germans” 7 Boycotting German Goods document 1.4 “No Trading with Germany” 9 Hitler on Trial at Madison Square Garden document 1.5 Hitler on Trial—Resolution and Verdict 12 Further Reading 15 2. The American Mood Antisemitism in Congress document 2.1 Representative John Rankins Remarks before the House 16 17 “Racial Science” Spreads document 2.2 The Passing of the Great Race 18 Father Coughlin and Hate Radio document 2.3 Father Coughlins Radio Address Concerning Kristallnacht 20
Antisemitic Attitudes among the Public 23 2.4 Polls by Roper (1938) and Opinion Research (1940) on Antisemitic Attitudes document Antisemitism in the State Department 25 2.5 Antisemitic Remarks by State Department Officials document Further Reading 27 28 3. Doing Business with Hitler U.S. Participation in the Nazi Olympics document 3.1 “To the Sport-Loving Public of the United States” 28 Apologizing to Hitler 32 3.2 Secretary of State Apologizes document to Hitler A Cabinet Member Participates in a Pro-Nazi Rally 35 3.3 ‘“Heil Hitler’ Resounds as Steuben Society Denounces Boycott, Acclaims New Germany” document Censoring Criticism of Hitler 37 3.4 FDR Objects to Secretary of the Interiors Criticism of Hitler document FDR Urges “Quarantining” of Aggressor Nations document 3.5 FDRs Quarantine Speech 40 Further Reading 43 4. The Universities and the Nazis Nazi Ambassador Speaks at Columbia document 44 45 4.1 “Luther Calls Hitler Critics Old-Timers’” Nazi Official Visits Harvard document 48 4.2 “Render unto Caesar” A Nazi University Celebrates document 49 4.3 “Heidelberg” vi
American Students in Nazi Germany document 4.4 “Germany Discussed by One Who Spent Junior Year There” 51 Abandoning Refugee Scholars document 4.5 Hamilton College President’s Letter Regarding Hiring Refugee Scholars 54 Further Reading 56 5. U.S. Immigration Policy 57 Immigration Statistics document 5.1 “Annual Quotas and Quota Immigrants Admitted, Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1925 to 1944, by Countries” 58 When Anne Frank Tried to Come to America document 5.2 Anne Franks Father Asks American Industrialist to Help the Frank Family Immigrate 61 “Postpone and Postpone and Postpone” document 5.3 The Assistant Secretary of State on Ways to Obstruct Immigration 64 The “Close Relatives” Rule document 5.4 U.S. Immigration Regulation Regarding Applicants Leaving “Close Relatives” Behind 66 Albert Einsteins Plea to the First Lady document 5.5 Albert Einstein Asks the First Lady to Oppose New Immigration Restrictions 68 Further Reading 70 6. Searching for a Haven 71 James McDonald Resigns in Protest document 6.1 Resignation of the High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany 71 Eyewitness to Horror document 6.2 “Jews Humiliated by Vienna Crowds” 74 The Evian Conference document 6.3 Refugee Problem Announcement in Preparation for the Evian Conference 76 vii
Suicide of a Jewish Refugee 79 6.4 “Ends Life to Escape Return to Germany” document FDR Responds to Kristallnacht 81 6.5 President Roosevelts Statement Concerning the Kristallnacht Pogrom document Further Reading 84 7. The Doomed Journey of the St. Louis Offer of Haven in the Virgin Islands 85 87 7.1 “Virgin Islands Too Offer Haven for Oppressed Jews” document A Child Appeals to the First Lady 88 7.2 Eleven-Year-Old Beseeches the First Lady to Accept the Refugees document St. Louis Passengers Appeal to the White House 90 7.3 St. Louis Captains Log Record of Passengers’ Telegram to the White House document Secretaries of State and Treasury Discuss the St. Louis 92 7.4 Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury Confer on the St. Louis document “The Saddest Ship Afloat” document 94 7.5 “Refugee Ship” 97 Further Reading 8. The Wagner-Rogers Bill to Save Children 98 98 The Wagner-Rogers Bill 8.1 Text of the Wagner-Rogers Bill (H.R.J. Res. 165 and 168) document “20,000 Ugly Adults” 102 8.2 Remark by FDRs Cousin against Wagner-Rogers document President Roosevelts Position 104 8.3 FDRs “File No Action” Note on Wagner-Rogers document viii
Helen Hayes Testifies for Admitting Children 106 8.4 “First Lady of the American Theater” Testifies for Admitting German Refugee Children document Agnes Waters Testifies against Admitting Children 108 8.5 “Mother Witness” Testifies against Admitting German Refugee Children document Further Reading 112 9. American Rescuers 113 The State Department Rebuffs Varian Fry document 114 9.1 “You Should Inform Dr. Bohn and Mr. Fry” The Krauses Rescue Fifty Children from Germany and Austria document 117 9.2 Erika Tamars Passport to America The Sharps’ Rescue Mission in Czechoslovakia 120 9.3 Martha Sharps Recollections about Rescue Work in Czechoslovakia document Lois Gunden Shelters Children in Vichy France 123 9.4 Recollections of Hiding French Jewish Children from the Nazis document Roddie Edmonds Shields Jewish gis from the Nazis 125 9.5 Testimony Regarding Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds’s Bravery document Further Reading 128 10. Genocide Confirmed 129 The Bund Report 130 10.i “Report of the Bund Regarding the Persecution of the Jews—May 1942” document The Riegner Telegram 132 10.2 Gerhart Riegners Telegram Revealing the Nazis’ Annihilation Plan document The Sternbuch Telegram 135 10.3 The Sternbuch Telegram Revealing Additional Details of the Mass Murder document ix
The Allies’ Declaration 137 10.4 “German Policy of Extermination of the Jewish Race” document Jan Karski Reports to President Roosevelt 139 10.5 A Polish Underground Couriers document 1943 Conversation with President Roosevelt Further Reading 141 11. All the News the Media Could Fit 142 The New York Times on Babi Yar 142 11.1 Two Reporters’ Contrasting document Accounts of the Babi Yar Massacre The Media and the Allies’ Declaration 145 11.2 U.S. News Media’s Coverage of document the Allies’ Declaration on the Mass Murder The Media and the Deportations from Hungary 147 11.3 “Jews in Hungary Fear Annihilation” document 150 The Nation Urges Rescue 11.4 “While the Jews Die” document I. E Stone Investigates document 11.5 “Justice Department Immigration Figures Knock Long Story into Cocked Hat” Further Reading 155 12. American Christian Responses Rabbi Wise Pleads with Christian Clergy 156 156 12.1 Meeting of Rabbi Wise and Christian Clergy, 1933 document The U.S. Catholic Press on Kristallnacht document 158 12.2 “Nazi Atrocities and the American War Fever: Are We Preparing for War with Germany?” Christian Century Doubts the Holocaust document 12.3 “Horror Stories from Poland,” “From Rabbi Wise,” “From the Editors” x 161
Jewish and Christian Students Speak Out document 12.4 On Implementing Brotherhood” 164 A Baptist Farmers Gesture document 12.5 “Farmer Rogers, His Brothers Keeper” 167 Further Reading 170 13. American Jewish Responses 171 The President and the Rabbi document 13.1 Rabbi Wises Student Questions His Relationship with FDR 171 Jewish Leaders Appeal to the President document 13.2 “Report on the Visit to the President” 173 Jewish Congressmen Meet with the President document 13.3 “Minutes of Dinner Meeting on Wednesday Evening March 22nd at the Statler Hotel” 176 “If They Were Slaughtering Horses” document 13.4 “Confidential Memorandum of Rabbi Meyer Berlin” 179 Jewish Leaders Discuss Strategy document 13.5 Meeting of Jewish Leaders Concerning Rescue Advocacy 181 Further Reading 184 14. The Bermuda Conference 181 A Jewish Proposal for Bermuda document 14.1 “The Following Proposals Are Respectfully Submitted” 186 Announcement at the End of the Conference document 14.2 “Report of the Bermuda Meeting on the Refugee Problem” 190 Congressman Emanuel Cellers Response document 14.3 Response to Bermuda 192 A Jewish Leaders Response document 14.4 “The Mockery at Bermuda” 195 xi
“An Appeal to the Conscience of the World” document 14.5 “I am taking the liberty of addressing to you, Sirs, these my last words” 198 Further Reading 200 15. Obstacles to Rescue 201 Congressional Sympathy document 15.1 Text of the Barkley Resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 9) 202 A Cartoonist Challenges the State Department document 15.2 “Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8b, for Consideration” 203 FDR on “Rescue through Victory” document 15.3 “Speech of the Honorable A. A. Berle Jr.” 205 The Allies’ Declaration in Moscow document 15.4 “Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security” 207 Empty Ships for Refugees document 15.5 “Shipping for Refugees” 210 Further Reading 213 16. The Campaign for Rescue 214 The Bergson Groups “Race against Death” document 16.1 “This Is a Race against Death” 214 The Rabbis’ Petition to FDR document 16.2 “In the Name of God, Creator of the Universe” 217 Congressional Resolution on Rescue document 16.3 Text of the Gillette-Rogers Resolution (H. Res. 352) 221 Breckinridge Long’s Testimony document 16.4 “Statement of Hon. Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State” 223 xii
Exposing the State Department document 16.5 “Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews” 226 Further Reading 229 17. Zionism and the Holocaust 230 The White Paper document 17.1 Excerpt from “Palestine Statement of Policy Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty” 231 A Christian Zionist Speaks Out document 17.2 “The Fifth Freedom” 234 Proposed Anglo-American Statement document 17.3 “Statement for Issuance by the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom Regarding Palestine” 237 1944 Republican and Democratic Party Platforms document 17.4 Republican Party Platform of 1944 and Democratic Party Platform of 1944 240 FDRs 1944 Statement on Zionism document 17.5 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelts October 1944 Statement Regarding Palestine 242 Further Reading 245 18. The War Refugee Board 246 Creation of the War Refugee Board document 18.1 “Executive Order No. 9417 Establishing a War Refugee Board” 247 A Presidential Warning document 18.2 Proposals and Revisions of President Roosevelt’s March 24,1944, Statement Regarding Nazi Collaborators 250 xiii
254 A Surprising Poll 18.3 Gallup Poll Findings Concerning Temporary Admission of Refugees document Rescuing Romanian Jews 257 18.4 Life Line to a Promised Land document Raoul Wallenbergs Mission 260 18.5 With Wallenberg in Budapest document Further Reading 263 19. Bombing Auschwitz 264 The Auschwitz Escapees’ Report 265 19.1 “The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oswięcim) and Birkenau in Upper Silesia” document A Plea to Bomb the Railways document 268 19.2 Diary of Jacob Rosenheim A Plea to Bomb the Gas Chambers 270 19.3 World Jewish Congress Official Urges Assistant Secretary of War to Bomb Gas Chambers at Auschwitz and Nearby Railways document The War Departments Rejection Letter 273 19.4 Assistant Secretary of War Rejects Proposal to Bomb Railways to Auschwitz document 275 A Public Appeal for Bombing document 19.5 “Last Chance for Rescue” Further Reading 278 279 20. Liberation 281 A gi Encounters the Holocaust document 20.1 Liberation of Dachau Eisenhower Urges Media to See the Camps 283 20.2 Call for Prominent Witnesses to “Conditions of Indescribable Horror” document Marlon Brando, Holocaust Witness document 20.3 A Flag Is Born Play xiv 285
An American Chaplain in Buchenwald document 20.4 An American Chaplain Encounters Survivors in Buchenwald 288 The Harrison Report document 20.5 “Report of Earl G. Harrison” 290 Further Reading 293 State of the Field 294 Notes 305 Bibliography Index 311 317 XV |
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