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Role over.(the editor's spin)

By Nathans, Stephen F.
Publication: EMedia, The Digital Studio Magazine
Date: Friday, October 1 2004

In his 1945 novel Focus, Arthur Miller reflected on the growing perception among American Jews that once the United States finished fighting Nazism abroad, it would implement its own final solution back home. In doing so, he accurately chronicled the rise of anti-Semitic organizations and radio hatemonger Father Coughlin in the U.S. during the early 1940s. Later, many argued that only revelations of the death camps' horrors kept the U.S. from confining Jews to internment camps in the post-war years, as it had the Japanese-Americans during the war. The shock and shame didn't defuse