a) Who was the Prime Minister of Britain at the time of the Holocaust? Who was the President of the United States at the time?
b) Why do you think that the Allied military leaders did nothing to stop the slaughter of the Jews and others, despite their knowledge of it? Try to give both a military and a political reason.
c) Had they decided to do something to stop the slaughter, what could the military have done? Remember, it was war time.
d) How did the various Christian churches respond to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust?


Cartoon from the New York Times, July 3 1938