Die USA und der Holocaust

The story

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.

Cast

P Peter CoyoteSelf - Narrator (voice) D Daniel MendelsohnSelf P Peter HayesSelf D Deborah LipstadtSelf G Guy SternSelf D Daniel GreeneSelf R Rebecca ErbeldingSelf E Eva GeiringerSelf S Sol MessingerSelf N Nell Irvin PainterSelf T Timothy SnyderSelf A Adam ArkinSelf (voice)

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M Murphy GuyerSelf (voice) C Carolyn McCormickSelf (voice) J Joe MortonSelf (voice) M Matthew RhysSelf (voice) A Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage) H Hermann GöringSelf (archive footage) F Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage) E Eleanor RooseveltSelf (archive footage) S Stephen WiseSelf (archive footage) J Julius SternSelf (archive footage) D Daniel OkrentSelf S Susan HilsenrathSelf J Joseph HilsenrathSelf P Paul Corning Jr.Self (voice) O Olivia GilliattSelf (voice) E Elliott GouldSelf (voice) P Paul GiamattiMadison Grant (voice) B Bradley WhitfordThomas Wolfe (voice) T Thomas Bailey AldrichSelf (archive footage) A Alexander Graham BellSelf (archive footage) H Herman BlandSelf (archive footage) L Lotte BlandSelf (archive footage) L Louis BrodskySelf (archive footage) A Avery BrundageSelf (archive footage) E Emanuel CellerSelf (archive footage) N Neville ChamberlainSelf (archive footage) C Calvin CoolidgeSelf (archive footage) F Father CoughlinSelf (archive footage) É Édouard DaladierSelf (archive footage) C Cecil B. DeMilleSelf (archive footage) W William E. DoddSelf (archive footage) H Henry FordSelf (archive footage) J Joseph GoebbelsSelf (archive footage) M Madison GrantSelf (archive footage) H Herschel GrynszpanSelf (archive footage) H Herbert HooverSelf (archive footage) C Cordell HullSelf (archive footage) H Helen KellerSelf (archive footage) E Emma LazarusSelf (archive footage) G Golda MeirSelf (archive footage) H Henry Morgenthau Jr.Self (archive footage) E Edgar Ansel MowrerSelf (archive footage) G Gerald NyeSelf (archive footage) J Jesse OwensSelf (archive footage) W William Dudley PelleySelf (archive footage) F Frances PerkinsSelf (archive footage) J Joseph ProskauerSelf (archive footage) T Theodore RooseveltSelf (archive footage) M Margaret SangerSelf (archive footage) A Alfred E. SmithSelf (archive footage) H Hedwig SternSelf (archive footage) D Dorothy ThompsonSelf (archive footage)