The United States is a melting pot. Known for recognizing diversity by embracing multiculturalism and ethnicity they were able to maintain their status as a leading country in the world. However, after the incident of the Holocaust, it left a moral stain on the nation’s conscience. Instead of considering the humanitarian issues during the World War II, the United States and other Allied nations prioritized military victory. And essentially for the Americans, the Holocaust was a question of Humanity vs National benefit. Yet Americans chose to worry for their own benefits rather than the most controversial and tragic murder. In a way, the Holocaust situation correlates with the act of bullying. While Germans harass and bullies the Jews, America and the …show more content…
The Western Allies themselves said that they were fighting against the most inhumane regime that had ever disfigured the face of this earth. By not helping the Jews, they ignored their own purposes. So in the end, it is a moral issue. And on the moral front, I think the Western Allies failed as far as the Jews were concerned One Jewish survivor of the Holocaust quoted, “We were no longer afraid of death; at any rate not of that death; Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life.” For prisoners in the Auschwitz complex, the bombs dropping nearby gave hope. This reveals America’s biggest mistakes. They had no particular reason to not help the Jews. Not only that but on August 8, 1942, Gerhart Riegner, office manager of the World Jewish Congress, had sent a telegraph message called Riegner Telegram to the New York and London offices. It had confirmed the reports about the German intention to mass persecute the European