U.S.’s Role In the Holocaust

Prompt: Write about your feelings toward your country and its role in the Holocaust.  As you respond, consider what you see as the U.S.’s role in current world conflicts.

To begin with, the U.S.’s role in the Holocaust was mainly to support the resettlement of the Jewish people. In the text “How the Holocaust Could Have Been Avoided”, it states that in the U.S., ¨Representatives from 32 countries and 20 Jewish and 19 non-Jewish refugee agencies met and talked about the urgent need to help Jews settle”. This means that we were aware of the problem and tried to help with the Holocaust but we didn't really want them.  As it said in “How the Holocaust Could Have Been Avoided”, “The Dominican Republic offered to take 500; no one else offered to take any more than their usual immigration quotas”. Our current role in world conflicts is that we are still actively in war in Afghanistan and we are also being threatened by North Korea but not fighting them. In my opinion, I believe that North Korea has gone quiet because we joined in the war with our nuclear strike abilities and criticism on the North. I conclude that the U.S had an important role in the Holocaust and we are still active in war.