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Protesting Nazism
"What is happening in Germany today may happen tomorrow in any other land on earth unless it is challenged and rebuked. . . . We must speak out."
-- Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, March 1933
American Jewish leaders hoped to persuade the US government to condemn the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany but disagreed on strategy and tactics. Some favored public demonstrations and a boycott of German goods, but others advocated working quietly behind the scenes, perhaps concerned about an antisemitic backlash in the United States.
These silent historic films show some of the anti-Nazi protests in more than 65 American cities during the spring of 1933, in the first months of Nazi Party rule in Germany. |