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The US and the Holocaust

Series 1

Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942)

Duration: 2 hours, 8 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for 9 months

After Kristallnacht, Germany’s Jews are desperate to escape Hitler’s tyranny. Americans are united in their disapproval of the Nazis’ brutality, but remain divided on whether and even how to act as World War II begins. Charles Lindbergh speaks for isolationists, while FDR tries to support Europe’s democracies. The Nazis invade the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust begins in secret. Show less

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