antisemitism

Documentary on America's anti-Semitic social and political climate in the thirties and forties even in the face of the Nazi persecution in Germany.

Antisemitism -- Authoritarianism and Conformity -- Aggression and Violence -- Practicing for Genocide: Euthanasia in Nazi Germany -- Hitler -- Leading Nazis -- Surviving the Ghettos and Camps -- Complicity or Resistance? -- Rescuers and Bystanders -- Holocaust Survivors in the Postwar World -- Explaining the Past and Predicting the Future -- Remembering the Holocaust.

This stunning documentary takes an unsparing look at the ways words have shaped the experience of Jewish people, from the first century to the present - a revealing history of anti-Semitism with roots long before the Holocaust and branches that continue to sprout in surprising places today.

To recall that "Hitler gave me a job when I was out of work" (rather than that "Hitler genocidally murdered 6 million Jews") seems a perverse falsification of history. This memoir of the 1930s is just such a falsification and, for this very reason, is naively truthful.

Discusses the involvement of Jews in the African American struggle for civil rights in the United States, from the first settlers up to the 1990s.

The author describes an unprecedented and global rise in anti-Semitism being fueled by technology and spread by politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals on every continent.

Chronicles the history of the Ku Klux Klan, profiling its various activities and the other hate groups that are associated with it.

Traces the development of anti-Semitism from its origins in Christianity to its modern place in mainstream Islam and chronicles the emergence of modern-day Jews and their enemies.