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Again and again, Jewish-Americans would
find themselves in an agonizing quandary: if they kept quiet about
Nazi persecution, it looked as though they'd
abandoned their fellow Jews; if they protested,
they ran the risk of seeming to confirm
Hitler's delusions about the power of
Jews around the world
find themselves in an agonizing quandary: if they kept quiet about
Nazi persecution, it looked as though they'd
abandoned their fellow Jews; if they protested,
they ran the risk of seeming to confirm
Hitler's delusions about the power of
Jews around the world
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Again and again,
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Jewish-Americans would
find themselves
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in an agonizing quandary:
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if they kept quiet about
Nazi persecution,
00:00:10.003 --> 00:00:13.841
it looked as though they'd
abandoned their fellow Jews;
00:00:13.875 --> 00:00:16.533
if they protested,
they ran the risk of
00:00:16.567 --> 00:00:19.001
seeming to confirm
Hitler's delusions
00:00:19.087 --> 00:00:22.366
about the power of
Jews around the world.
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Movie Summary
Explores America's response to the Holocaust, and how it challenged the ideals of democracy.