What did the US do for the Holocaust?

Answer 1

Actually, you are wrong too (person beneath me). The United States is the only nation where the native is the minority.Yes, we only took in how many what ever Jewish people, but we count on our large ethnic background for a lot of things! so, you are...partially right.

that is totally not true. America barely did anything because we were anti-semetic. plus we only took in less than 30000 Jews and we even turned Jews away.

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we founght for Jewish Freedom. Our country tried to stop the Germans and help any rescued Jews that same to our country.

Steady on!

1. Between 1933 and 1941 the U.S. took in about 250,000 refugees from Germany and Austria. Obviously, this figure includes non-Jewish political refugees, but the number of Jews admitted was much higher than the figure given above. However, given the scale of the Holocaust, it was not as high as many would wish.
2. The notion that the U.S. "fought for Jewish freedom" is very misleading. During World War 2 none of the Allies did anything specifically aimed at stopping the Holocaust.
3. Obviously, the defeat of Germany had the side effect of ending the Holocaust, but it was not a war aim.
4. It is should also be noted the it was the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor that brought the U.S. into World War and Germany's declaration of war on the U.S. The notion that the U.S. was somehow straining at the leash to fight for "Jewish freedom" is untrue, absurd and apt to encourage conspiracy theories.

Answer 2

We did nothing at the beginning any way. we chose to ignore it, when we did finally act millions of people already lost their lives. we wanted to isolate ourselves from war. so we did somthing near the end at least.

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You did ignore it at first but made an enormous contribution, once dragged in by the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Initially much of that was in supplying Britain and her allies with food, munitions etc., but many GIs fought in the Normandy Landings and across France into Germany.

Answer 3

The u.s. kept quiet about it. We knew years before they were liberated. The u.s. didn't want to enter the was over Jews. That's the sad truth.

Nobody expected or asked the US 'to enter the was over Jews'. The Holocaust (in the usual sense of genocide) began around the time the US was attacked at Pearl Harbor ... so the issue never arose in that form, anyway. The Holocaust was reported to the US government from late 1941 on and was reported in the media (press and on radio) from about October 1942 on. (obviously, neither the government nor the media had all the details, and there were many aspects that were not understood). In practical terms, there was not much that could be done at that stage. The US wasn'tall powerful.

At the very end of the war they liberated some of the concentration camps. Unfortunately for the Jews, many were not permitted into the United States. They had nowhere to go.

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Basically, nothing. Until the closing stages of World War 2, no other country had access to Germany. After this time, the remaining Jews - and many others in the camps - were freed by the Allies.

However when faced with with Jews fleeing Germany before the war, many had been refused entry. The United States responded the Holocaust during the war by not showing much interest. Congress did not raise Immigration quotas, and even the existing quotas for Jews went unfilled. In 1944, nearly two years later of knowing about this, Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board to try to help people that were threatened by Nazis. Despite the late start, the WRB's programs probably helped saved some 200,000 lives.

Answer 4

the US went and started to help fight the wars after Japan bombed them

Answer 5

Americans were shocked and repulsed by the Holocaust. In fact, American soldiers that saw the concentration camps first hand report having nightmares and anxiety attacks over it to this day.