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You can watch The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022) for free on PBS.

Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants', but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolds in Europe, the U.S. prove unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate refuge seekers. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight as their families tried to escape Hitler, this three-part documentary series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with.

This documentary strips away the comforting myth of American exceptionalism by confronting the country's documented indifference toward fleeing refugees. It trades easy patriotism for a searing, unblinking examination of how bureaucratic apathy fueled a global catastrophe.

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