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This 16 page paper provides evidence for the supposition that America was informed about the Holocaust and failed to do anything about it. Several New York Times articles from the era are cited. Pictures and cartoons from the time period are discussed. Bibliography lists 18 sources
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that the United States didnt know how terrible Hitler was until after he had already executed millions of people. How true is that? There are many different points of view
about the controversial Holocaust. There are those who even deny that it happened. While it is easy to look back and discuss something that occurred a long time ago, it
is more difficult to envelop the mind set of the day. What did people think in those days? What did Americans think? There have been suggestions that Americans did know
about the horrendous death camps, the medical experiments and Hitlers grand plan. But how much did they really know? In an attempt to answer that question, proof of just what
America knew and did not know will be explored through newspaper clippings, cartoons and photographs which were available to Americans at the time. The people should have known. The Holocaust
never should have happened. II. Background On January 30, 1933 AdoIf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and, by the end of February, the German government had
already taken from the people the freedom of speech, assembly, and press; they were not able to enjoy the freedoms from invasion of privacy by either mail, telephone, telegraph or
person 1. On March 20, 1933, in the same month that Roosevelt became president of the United States, the first concentration camp was opened at Dachau, Germany2. Dachau
was one of the Reichs main SS training centers and many ranks, both exalted and lowly, went on from their basic training at Dachau to other camps3. Josef Kramer,
for example, began his SS concentration camp career at Dachau in 1935, then continued on to Auschwitz to become Kommandant of Bergen-Belsen; Rudolf Hoess, Kommandant of Auschwitz, also served his
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