The U.S. and the Holocaust

Storyline

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

Top Cast

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator

?

Daniel Mendelsohn

Self - Writer

?

Peter Hayes

Self - Historian

?

Deborah Lipstadt

Self - Historian

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Eleanor Roosevelt

?

Daniel Greene

Self - Historian

?

Guy Stern

Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army

?

Rebecca Erbelding

Self - Historian

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Hermann Göring

Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Madison Grant

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin

(voice)

Joe Morton

Joe Morton

(voice)

Elliott Gould

Elliott Gould

(voice)

Matthew Rhys

Matthew Rhys

(voice)

Bradley Whitford

Bradley Whitford

(voice)

Director

Ken Burns

Writers

Geoffrey C. Ward, Kevin Baker

Status

Ended

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