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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
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