If you can, please watch the Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein, and Ken Burns: USA and the Holocaust

[HardPort]

This is an amazing account of how U.S. antisemitism contributed to the horrors of the 30s and 40s. The analog between American fascists then, and American fascists now is chilling, and, frankly, a clarion call.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the-holocaust/

[cilla4progress]

1. Watched it.

Agree with strong rec!

[HardPort]

2. It's rough to watch. Just like their doc on Vietnam, it had me weeping for my country. Thx

Let's hope someday we will as a country live up to our values

[cilla4progress]

3. Yes,

for sure.

My ancestors.

[debm55]

4. I watched it the first time it was on,

I agree with HardPort about the connection between the Nazis then and now. Also, the fact that the Nazi in Germany got inspiration for some of their hedious deeds from some of American deeds. And the comparisons with the maga are indeed right there. Not just at the end but through out. Make America great again, a rip off the German Nazis, was in some areas never Great. I also came away feeling a little less about FDR. Did anyone else get the feeling toward him?

[bahboo]

5. it was sobering and powerful...

[JudyM]

6. Watched most of it, really well researched and pulled together.