(Jewish Group) You must watch Ken Burns' PBS series on America and the Holocaust

[Behind the Aegis]

Why? I asked myself — with a heavy sigh.

Why did Ken Burns and others devote so much time and resources to the creation of this much-anticipated PBS series, “The U.S. and the Holocaust”?

Had we not already “been there, done that”? Had not a generation of scholars already created an intellectual cottage industry around America’s apathy during the Shoah? Had they not already covered our national shallowness in great depth? If we needed to do so, could we not simply go to the library and dust off old copies of books like David Wyman’s authoritative The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945, among other noteworthy and devastating works?

Let me say, without reserve, that I was wrong in my cynicism and World War Two-weariness. I am only one episode into it, but I will say this: Ken Burns has created a masterpiece.

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I have already seen part one. Watch it!