Relive your history every night, American History tv on cspan3. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Welcome to the u. S. Holocaust memorial museum. Im daniel greene. We decided on our 25th anniversary to look closely at americans role in the history. That goes back to our founding charter. Which mandated that the museum look closely as americans role in this history. In fact, on the day we opened, the chairman of the board at the time said, this museum is not an answer. Its a question. What we wanted to do in this exhibition is ask difficult questions about americans response to naziism. The questions that frame this exhibition are, what did americans know and what more could have been done . You will see throughout the exhibition that what we try to do is show the context of American History that shaped americans responses to naziism. That context includes our isolationism in the aftermath of world war i. Xenophobia, fear of immigrants
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