The U.S. and the Holocaust

Overview

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

Seasons

Specials

2 episodes

Season 1

3 episodes

Cast

Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator

Daniel Mendelsohn

Self - Writer

Peter Hayes

Self - Historian

Deborah Lipstadt

Self - Historian

Meryl Streep

Eleanor Roosevelt

Daniel Greene

Self - Historian

Guy Stern

Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army

Rebecca Erbelding

Self - Historian

Werner Herzog

Hermann Göring

Paul Giamatti

Madison Grant