The Holocaust: World Reactions To The Holocaust

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World Reactions to the Holocaust
The Holocaust was well known through-out the world during the time Adolph Hitler took over Germany, but many people didn’t think it was true or many people didn’t want to believe that it was true. America didn’t step into helping defeat Adolph Hitler until it was too late for many of Jews have already died. Germany knew about the killings of Jews but had no way of helping them, for much of Germany was Jews and many of them were in hiding. "The Holocaust affected Americans and Germans in many ways, but it affected the Germans more."
Americans had published about the holocaust in the newspaper but the articles not being more than a few inches long and buried in the newspaper. The Holocaust was denied by the United
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People all around the world knew about the holocaust but didn’t want to get involved; they were practically on their own. During the Holocaust they were always scared for the unexpected, didn’t know if help was coming, didn’t know if they were going to be chosen for the concentration camps, they knew nothing.
Germany was on their own trying to figure out what’s going to happen next they were blind to the whole situation. They had to work around trying to figure out how to help Jews, not get caught, and how to not be a sight around the Nazis. They dealt with Nazis coming into their houses, losing their jobs, having to see shootings in the streets and much more. Germany, when Adolf Hitler was in power was always in fear, scared to leave there houses in fear that they will be chosen to go to a concentration camp.
During the Holocaust Germany lived in fear the whole time Hitler was in power, America didn’t care they had other “problems” to deal with. American people didn’t even know about the holocaust until World War II was almost over. Germany was alone trying to figure out how to stop Hitler, until Britain stepped in about how they needed to bomb. Many wanted to help but America; America didn’t have the facts about what was going on. Germany and America had two different points of view during the