s_y_s_t_e_m_i_c_ OP t1_iqrnhv7 wrote on October 2, 2022 at 4:33 PM

Reply to comment by kjblank80 in The U.S. & the Holocaust, Episode 1: “The Golden Door” (2022) A xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration. Hitler and the Nazis persecute German Jews, forcing many to seek refuge. FDR is concerned by the growing crisis but is unable to coordinate a response. [02:08:43] by s_y_s_t_e_m_i_c_

The NYT? Can you please elaborate?

kjblank80 t1_iqrrer9 wrote on October 2, 2022 at 4:59 PM

There was effort to keep the concentration camps and plight if Jews out of the US news. Likely for a myriad of reasonz.

Most in the US didn't learn of any of it until after the war.

Within Europe, many new Jews were going to camps. Knowledge of the horrors wasn't as widespread. Considering most European countries only tolerated the presence of Jews, I could see some of the apathy on the news Germans were rounding up Jews in camps.

Related to the NYTimes, which set the news cycle in the US at the time, much of their reporting was propaganda from the FDR administration. There may have been noble and underhanded reasons for it.