How did America react to the Holocaust? With Hitler’s rise to power, he began a systematic persecution of German Jews. With the Third Reich in power, thousands of German Jews tried to flee political oppression and found that many countries refused to accept them. Approximately 6 million Jews were murdered under Hitler’s leadership during World War II, and many Americans genuinely felt that the United States was deficient in the necessary resources to provide accommodations for and new immigrants. Many other Americans, however, were not as naïve and strong reflected the growing problem of sectarianism. Although many Americans viewed Jews in an unfavorable light, they never reached the intensity of hatred for Jews by which, Nazi Germany did.
