Opinion/Harold: Burns' Holocaust film chronicles our failure to help Jews fleeing genocide
Opinion/Harold: Burns' Holocaust film chronicles our failure to help Jews fleeing genocide Brent Harold Columnist Published Oct. 9, 2022 Americans have long trusted Ken Burns to tell our stories: The Civil War, baseball, jazz, national parks, the Vietnam War and country music . This trust in Burns in this moment of universal mistrust is an important part of what we bring to his latest PBS series “The U.S. and the Holocaust” . He has focused on hard stories before such as the Civil War and Vietnam. But this is perhaps the hardest to hear, especially for worshippers of the so-called Greatest Generation and American exceptionalists in general. The story we like to remember of that terrible era, what most of us grew up thinking, the story told in so many movies in the years after World War II, is how we saved the world from the horrors of Hitler and fascism. The Nazis were the bad guys and we were the good guys. It is that self-congratulatory story that Burns' sto...
