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Which is why everyone should at least watch THE US AND THE HOLOCAUST (2022) www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-...

Circling back I do wonder what would happen if we taught WWII history not as the US "boldly daring to do the right thing" but really ending up doing the right thing by the edge of a coin toss, and even then it wasn't like the country saw Jewish people as fully human.

Watch The U.S. and the Holocaust | Full Documentary Now Streaming | PBSwww.pbs.org THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST is a three-part, six hour series directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, that examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the tw...

Mythologising of WW2 is sharply correlated with colonialism. The russians are furthest, it's absolutely crazy levels over there, and been like that forever. The Brits distant second. The US third, probably.