Oppression of Jews During the Holocaust

Any judgment of the impact that oppression of the Jews had on the U.S. must begin with a look at the oppression in Europe. The evidence of Europe is that the apparatus of oppression was built systematically and the very "thinkability" of the methods Nazis used to accomplish what became called the Final Solution found resonance in both Europe and the U.S. In the scholarly community, controversy surrounds the issue of whether the Holocaust was sui generis, just one more instance of racism and genocide in human history, or something in between (Lipstadt 27; Dawidowicz, "How" 30). What does seem undisputed about the earliest Nazi measures is that--ominous and odious as they were, and whatever the Holocaust became eventually--they appeared to be more a throwback to earlier periods of European history than a programmatic departure from oppression patterns. As Wistrich (pas

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. By making themselves out to be "have not" nations, Germany and Italy persuaded some Americans that the fascist powers were the sharecroppers of world politics (Leuchtenberg 198). Curiously, it was also during this period that American liberals who had long criticized American intervention in Latin American politics faulted FDR's noninterventionist Good Neighbor Policy, as the governments of Panama, Haiti, and Cuba moved toward right-wing dictatorship (Leuchtenberg 207-8). Meanwhile, anticommunist conservatives urged FDR to annex part of northern Mexico when Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas nationalized American oil interests in 1938. Why American pacifist-progressive liberals and isolationist-nationalist conservatives for different reasons recoiled together at the thought of American involvement in a European war against fascism, while (for different reasons and at different times) urging military intervention in Latin America is a provocative question of comparative politics and national psychology--and outside the scope of this research. But there is no doubt that both before and during the war, the effects on American policy of the oppression of Jews in Europe were filtered through domestic and not internationalist politics.
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