Check out this video, shown to all American solders stationed in Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v5QCGqDYGo.
It was a briefing on the rise and fall of Hitler, World War 2, etc. It details Hitler's war crimes and calls him a fiend for invading so many countries and killing so many civilians. It basically states that the German people were complicit in hitler's aggression.
Yet in the whole 15 minutes, it never mentions the persecution of Jews, the gas chambers or the dead of the holocaust.
I think the reason why not is due to the anti-semitism of many Americans back then and the horrific, graphic nature of the genocide.
In the post war years, there were countless movies about World War 2 and it's battles, only a handful of which have stood the test of time.
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) were the only two films up until the 1970s to even hint at the Holocaust. Perhaps because at that point it was just an awful current event that all knew of but no one wanted depicted.
It was a briefing on the rise and fall of Hitler, World War 2, etc. It details Hitler's war crimes and calls him a fiend for invading so many countries and killing so many civilians. It basically states that the German people were complicit in hitler's aggression.
Yet in the whole 15 minutes, it never mentions the persecution of Jews, the gas chambers or the dead of the holocaust.
I think the reason why not is due to the anti-semitism of many Americans back then and the horrific, graphic nature of the genocide.
In the post war years, there were countless movies about World War 2 and it's battles, only a handful of which have stood the test of time.
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) were the only two films up until the 1970s to even hint at the Holocaust. Perhaps because at that point it was just an awful current event that all knew of but no one wanted depicted.
