American news outlets didn’t take Hitler seriously at first, lampooning him as a fool and the “Vegetarian Superman,” while at the same time quoting him as blaming Jews for Germany’s defeat in WWI and current debts. History shows America failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
U.S. press depicted Hitler as a fool
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn before the Nazi slaughter begins