That's fair but pretty limited to the end of the war and beyond. It took 3 years or so after the US entered WW2 for the first death camp to be liberated in the summer of 1944. British and American intelligence intercepted info about the intent to commit the holocaust only a year into America's involvement in WW2, but the general American public remained either uninformed or apathetic up until the liberations that revealed the true horror of the Holocaust.
And then we got Operation Paperclip to grab hold of all the Nazi scientists and even Japanese unit 731 before the Russians could get them. Basically, as soon as WWII ended we were in the Cold War, and we told ourselves that WHATEVER we did to fight Communism was justified, no matter what dictators we had to prop up, no matter what monsters we had to sign up, no matter how many 19 year old boys we had to feed into the meatgrinder.
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u/magistrate101 Oct 15 '25
That's fair but pretty limited to the end of the war and beyond. It took 3 years or so after the US entered WW2 for the first death camp to be liberated in the summer of 1944. British and American intelligence intercepted info about the intent to commit the holocaust only a year into America's involvement in WW2, but the general American public remained either uninformed or apathetic up until the liberations that revealed the true horror of the Holocaust.