Word: holocaust
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What I mean by "difficult movie" is a difficult movie for Hollywood to market. How do you market a black-and-white movie about the Holocaust? Well- if I went in there and told them I want to shoot a black-and-white about the Holocaust, will you give me twenty-seven million dollars, of course they're gonna say no. You kinda have to work to that point. If I want to make a movie version of the play "Bent," which is about gays during the Holocaust, they're not gonna finance that for me right now, you know...
...people,' because of what they believe, or what they look like, or...can be summarily executed. Unfortunately for the world, that course has been pursued many times and in many places by many people who succumbed to the most evil impulses of humankind. How ironic that Frank would choose Holocaust Remembrance Day to declare that's the list he wants to be on. Lee A. Daniels '71 Fellow, W.E.B DuBois Institute
History: America and the Holocaust...
Despite that effort, William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian of the Roosevelt era, agrees with Wyman that F.D.R.'s record on the Holocaust was "shameful." ^ The U.S. Government could not have prevented the Holocaust, Leuchtenburg explains, but it took little advantage of opportunities to help its victims. Consider the question of whether American bombers should have attacked the railroads and gas chambers at Auschwitz. The documentary contends that while American Jewish leaders were being told such raids would be too dangerous for airmen, U.S. bombers based in Italy were attacking an I.G. Farben factory less than 50 miles from the death...
...took enormous political risks in preparing the U.S. to join the Allies at a time when most Americans favored neutrality. "Suppose he had adhered to the Neutrality Act," says Herzstein. "What kind of world would the Jews have been in, in Europe? How many would have survived the Holocaust?" In seeing that the only sure way to end the genocide was to destroy Hitler, F.D.R. surely had a larger vision than his critics...