re: Ken Burns’ The US and the Holocaust

The biggest issue was clamping down on immigration with no consideration of refugees from Nazi Germany. Probably costs hundreds of thousands of lives, and it was a policy largely based on xenophobia and some underlying Antisemitism.

Obviously once we get involved in the war it can’t be understands how crucial then US was in ending the Holocaust.

The US isn’t a bad guy, but like a lot of the world we could have done way more very easily.