LA Times op - ed claims America ' fueled the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust ' LA Times op - ed claims America ' fueled the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust ' An opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times argued that Americans originally helped to promote the rise of Nazism and even the Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s. The Los Angeles Times spotlighted a piece that chastised America for fueling the rise ofNazis and the Holocaustseveral decades prior. In the Sunday op - ed titled"Americans fueled the rise of Nazis and the Holocaust . Will we...