Summary Of Deborah E Lipstadt's 'Beyond Belief'

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution of approximately six million Jews by Germany and its collaborators. The word, “Holocaust,” is a word derived from Greek that means, “sacrifice by fire.” The Nazis ultimately believed that Germans were superior, and Jews were inferior, and were a threat to the German community. But, Germans didn’t only target Jews, they targeted many other groups as well, such as gypsies, communists, and handicapped. The policy to murder the Jews of Europe is known as the “Final Solution,” and it killed nearly two out of three European Jews. However, there is some awful truth about the US reporting on the Holocaust. First of all, journalists at the time had to follow many policies and this restricted them from reporting …show more content…
Lipstadt is a writer who uses various strategies in portraying her messages and ensures that her ideas reach the potential target groups without failure. The two sources that are going to be used in this analysis is the book "Beyond Belief" The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust," by Deborah E. Lipstadt, together with the video, "America and the Holocaust" that, in one way or the other connects. "Beyond Belief" The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust" is a painstaking examination on the various concerns on how the American press together with the American government was reluctant and derelict in handling the various sufferings that were being realized by the European Jewish population. Also, this is the period when millions of the Jews were put under persecution and annihilation. However, despite all these sufferings, the American television, and the press became reluctant and largely ignored to report on these problems. Those cases that were reported were given minor headlines and headings in between other information (Lipstadt 54). This is the same thing that is realized in the video, "America and the Holocaust." This video shares information on the main events that were recognized in America during the Holocaust. And despite all these events being clearly understood by the common citizens and some of the governmental officials, there were fewer interventions that were employed in saving the population of Jews who were undergoing …show more content…
And if any attempts and strategies were put in place in handling this situation the millions of lives that were lost could have been saved. This is the same thing that is realized within the movie, where PBS uses various characters interviewed and their responses reveal that the American government had the ability to save the Jews who were undertaken through the Nazis. Also, through the use of such facts that attack the government in an indirect manner, it is easier to tell that the author proposes that this was a horrific event that happened with political awareness, and all the blame is on the American