Perspectives September 15, 2022 The United States Hesitated to Protect Europe’s Jews from Nazi Brutality. We’re Not Condemned to Reenact That Error Today. American politicians and citizens waited too long to try to save Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust, as a PBS documentary airing this month demonstrates. We cannot afford to show the same torpor when facing ethnic discrimination or destruction today. When Freedom House was founded 80 years ago, America was in the middle of one of the most tumultuous periods in its history, marked by economic depression, a flirtation with extremist ideologies, and intense isolationism that saw...