The BBC first broadcast news of the holocaust in 1942. Surprisingly the BBC didn't defend the murderers and slander the victims. The news itself came from Jewish anti-zionist socialists and the BBC didn't once call them antisemites.
Yes, but not beamed straight into the retinas of ostensibly civilized people every hour of every day who then went on to slander the victims and defend the camp guards.
The world did know, to some degree. Jan Karski personally warned Roosevelt, military intelligence knew from aerial photography. There are contemporary news articles about it. The world knew, but did not act.
Never Again was supposed to mean that we'd all stop it, by force, the next time.
Just to be clear: the world did know enough about the Holocaust and they absolutely didn’t care. When the minister in charge in Canada was asked off the record how many fleeing Jewish refugees Canada should take in, he said, “None is too many.”
Alt-text is wrong. That's not General Lee. That's Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, famed for his March to the Sea during the late stages of the US Civil War, which included burning the city of Atlanta to the ground.
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Never Again was supposed to mean that we'd all stop it, by force, the next time.
Not caring also has historical precedent.
(He is, perhaps, my favorite historical figure.)
I thought he was the asshole because of his intense look. Apologies to mr Sherman.
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