World War II was one of the deadliest and most destructive wars the world has ever seen. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed in action, there were also six million Jewish civilians slaughtered like cattle by Hitler and the Germans. This war originated in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power. He started a process which he entitled ethnic cleansing, killing any Jewish person, gypsy, homosexual, or any other individual deemed to be “inferior” by his standards. The holocaust was a systematic destruction process which, in a very diabolical fashion, developed a way for the legal demolition of property, suppression of rights, and ultimately extermination camps.

One of the questions posed frequently is, “how did the United States react to the Holocaust?” The answer is not a pleasing one in many aspects. During World War II, The United States Of America took virtually no action to impede the holocaust. Nor did it try to rescue the victims from the concentration camps, even though The United States was well aware of the genocide taking place. Proposals such as bombing the rail system that transported victims and supplies to Auschwitz were rejected. No succ

There was little doubt that The United States of America had known about the mistreatment of the Jewish people in the early 1930’s. However, at that time there were no genocidal practices being conducted, only anti-semantic laws being adopted. The situation of the Jewish people in Germany at the time seemed nearly identical to the Jim Crow laws that the African-American people in the United States also faced. American views of the Nuremberg Laws were dramatically moderate because of the common use of racial categorization and suspicion of Jews in the United States (America Vies the Holocaust, 53). This is one reason why no help was given to the Jews early on. There were many more reasons why anti-Semitism in the United States was a cause of no action. Anti-Semitism was much more prevalent in the 1930’s than it is today. Congressman such as senator Bilbo of Mississippi and bureaucrats such as Breckinridge Long (Department of State) who were in charge of refugees in the United States did not help the Jewish people simply because they did not want to help (America Views the Holocaust, 156). Also, since the dominant religion in The United States was Catholicism and the Jews were viewed as “Christ Killers”, most Americans were not inclined to go to war simply because the Germans didn’t like the Jews (America Views, 52). This anti-Semitism also suppressed Jewish groups who were afraid of provoking their enemies if they protested too much. Although a few attempts were made by some political groups to boycott trade with Germany, nothing ever really made an impact on the American public’s opinion before the war ended. But the boycott, especially in the minds of the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee, kept the plight of the German Jews on the minds of most Americans (America Views, 33).

Most of what the American public was told throughout the early years of the War was tainted by German propaganda, which proclaimed that the stories told in the American papers were substantially exaggerated. The Olympic Games of 1936 were being held in Berlin, the heart of Germany. Many participants were fearful as a result of the newly passed Nuremberg laws, especially black athletes (placed lower than Jews in Arian viewpoint) and Jewish athletes (America Views, 60). During the 1936 Olympic Games, Germany seemingly stopped all harsh treatment of the Jewish people. Shortly before the games started, the Nazis removed all anti-Semitic propaganda and other signs of the anti-Jewish campaign from Berlin in order to counter the Olympic controversy (America Views, 53). This shielded the torture that was actually going on from the rest of the world.

A few years after the Olympic Games were over; the United States of America was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. America almost instantaneously declared war on Japan and soon after, Germany. During the final few years of the war, The United States was far too involved with military strategies and putting the war to an end to deal with the suffering of the Jews. Although some think that the best help for the Jewish people was a quick and ultimate victory led by the United States, others disagree. There was even more suffering after the end of the war, but this was quickly remedied when United States troops freed the Jewish people from the remaining concentration camps.

The facts regarding the events of the Holocaust desperately need to be revealed to the world. Nazi propaganda started after the Nazis began to erase the rights of the Jews and other party enemies in 1933, soon after

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