Boomer (72) here. I really enjoyed listening to the podcast today. May I please clarify a fact and offer an observation. The US didn't enter WWII because we were offended by the Holocaust, Cam. We did it because Germany declared war on us a few days after Japan did, with Pearl Harbor. Probably FDR knew about the Holocaust going in, but A…
Boomer (72) here. I really enjoyed listening to the podcast today. May I please clarify a fact and offer an observation. The US didn't enter WWII because we were offended by the Holocaust, Cam. We did it because Germany declared war on us a few days after Japan did, with Pearl Harbor. Probably FDR knew about the Holocaust going in, but Americans at large didn't. Second, I really enjoyed Ellie's fresh perspective, at my age I need to hear from her and others like her. I hope she believes that a second really good reason to help Ukraine ("they need our help, and its the right thing to do") is that Putin, aside from being evil, is unabashedly imperialist and terrritorialist, and if Ukraine falls, Poland and others may be next. And the protection offered by our big beautiful ocean will be a lot less effective.
Correct. The US did not enter the war primarily due to the holocaust situation. The US government and population had plenty of antisemitism before and after that. A very readable and excellent book I recommend to anyone interested in the events leading up to the bombing of London and America's entrance into the war is "The Splendid and the Vile" by Erik Larson.
Nonintervention — its critics called it isolationism — was the mainstream, consensus position among the American population right up to December 7, 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. At least that's my understanding of what H. W. Brands says in his new book about Lindbergh, FDR, and the run-up to US involvement in the Second World War.
Brands spoke about the book at length on Shield of the Republic a few weeks ago. I recommend it:
Thank you for this and for the reference. I'll read it! My comment was intended to address Cam's remark during the podcast that we went to war with Germany over the matter of the Holocaust.
Boomer (72) here. I really enjoyed listening to the podcast today. May I please clarify a fact and offer an observation. The US didn't enter WWII because we were offended by the Holocaust, Cam. We did it because Germany declared war on us a few days after Japan did, with Pearl Harbor. Probably FDR knew about the Holocaust going in, but Americans at large didn't. Second, I really enjoyed Ellie's fresh perspective, at my age I need to hear from her and others like her. I hope she believes that a second really good reason to help Ukraine ("they need our help, and its the right thing to do") is that Putin, aside from being evil, is unabashedly imperialist and terrritorialist, and if Ukraine falls, Poland and others may be next. And the protection offered by our big beautiful ocean will be a lot less effective.
Correct. The US did not enter the war primarily due to the holocaust situation. The US government and population had plenty of antisemitism before and after that. A very readable and excellent book I recommend to anyone interested in the events leading up to the bombing of London and America's entrance into the war is "The Splendid and the Vile" by Erik Larson.
Nonintervention — its critics called it isolationism — was the mainstream, consensus position among the American population right up to December 7, 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. At least that's my understanding of what H. W. Brands says in his new book about Lindbergh, FDR, and the run-up to US involvement in the Second World War.
Brands spoke about the book at length on Shield of the Republic a few weeks ago. I recommend it:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/charles-lindbergh-and-the-ghosts
Thank you for this and for the reference. I'll read it! My comment was intended to address Cam's remark during the podcast that we went to war with Germany over the matter of the Holocaust.