On January 27, 1945, Russian troops went to Auschwitz, which was a village in southern Poland. There, in Auschwitz's were concentration camps. They found 7,600 inmates and World War II's most awful secret, the Holocaust. A few days later the U.S. Army freed another well known Nazi death camp, named Dachau. The soldiers saw starving prisoners, bones protruding from their skin, serial numbers tattooed on their arm, stacks of half-burned corpses, and piles of human hair. Auschwitz …showed first 75 words of 419 total…

…showed last 75 words of 419 total…from immigrating to the United States. Between 1933 and 1945, the United States only allowed ten percent of what they were supposed to allow into the country by law. The resistance for Jewish immigration showed that the U.S. was in a way an Anti-Semitist country. Most people at that time agreed that Jews were different and should be restricted. This was probably why Roosevelt didn’t bother to help even though he knew about the camps.