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The U.S. and the Holocaust

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Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

Lynn Novick
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Kevin Baker
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Mike Welt
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Ken Burns
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Lynn Novick
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Sarah Botstein
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Ken Burns
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Geoffrey C. Ward
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Cast

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Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Self - Writer
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Peter Hayes
Self - Historian
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Deborah Lipstadt
Self - Historian
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Meryl Streep
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Daniel Greene
Self - Historian
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Guy Stern
Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army
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Rebecca Erbelding
Self - Historian
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Werner Herzog
Hermann Göring
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Paul Giamatti
Madison Grant
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Adam Arkin
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Joe Morton
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