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American Experience: America and the Holocaust
This episode of The American Experience examines the role of the United States in the Holocaust, exploring such issues as American antisemitism and the deliberate suppression of information that European Jews were slated for genocide.
Video Length
1:22:5Subject
- History
Language
English — USUpdated
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