| You kind of misrepresented your references as the later link essentially makes the case that the NYT actually did not give prominent coverage of the holocaust. That's actually the point of the article. Also - I wouldn't meant to indicate that 'nobody knew that Jews were having trouble in Germany' - but rather the true horrors of the situation. The 'final solution' was not fully on until the world was fully at war, essentially. Millions of people are dying all over the world ... and Americans started fighting and dying on mass (i.e. front page news, and everyone knows someone personally who's dead) - this is going to be the visceral thing people are concerned with. The 'holocaust' is only a chapter of that. There was no reference point for 'death camps' - since American Japanese were interned in camps - I suggest that's probably what many were thinking of. And before the war, during the 1930's ... this was an international issue. Very few of the proles are concerned with international affairs. Internment of the Jews in the 1930's I think would be comparable to victims of African wing of ISIS etc. It's tragic, but it's not something we reference every day. And of course - farmers and townsfolk don't read the NYT! There was no 'mass media' as we know it. No television. Unless it was on some kind of national broadcast, constantly, it was not going to be in the hearts and minds of regular people. And of course, once the 'final solution' was scaled up - Americans were doing something about it, they were literally fighting and dying while liberating such camps (!). So I'm doubtful of the premise that Americans 'knew but didn't care' while they were quite actively working against the Nazis. |