Have a care for my ribs, bro'. I don't want to break them laughing.
When the United States finally entered the war, as one of the many historians consulted for the documentary points out, the war department didn't want American soldiers to know about the mass extermination of Europe's Jewish population. They were afraid that our G.I.s wouldn't fight as hard if they thought they were fighting for Jews.
If you think it can't happen here, you need to watch the latest from Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein
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