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How Ken Burns Misuses the Holocaust

Ken Burns’s documentaries blend striking visuals of still photos or archival film with colorful and often insightful analysis and narration. But his skill as

Burns is a leftist hack who is exploiting the Shoah to prop up the left’s dangerous immigration policies.

“What Burns omits is more telling. His 2014 production, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, included at least some criticism of FDR’s inaction when it came to the Holocaust. But this film—a film about the Holocaust—consistently defends him. The story told here is one in which the president, a man who had largely unchallenged political power as he bestrode the American scene, wanted to do more but was prevented from doing so. In this telling, it is a nativist Congress, Jew-haters at the State Department, the general acceptance of anti-Semitism, as well as the exigencies of fighting the war and the impossibility of effective action or rescue that stopped this well-meaning president from saving more Jews.”

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Historian: Ken Burns Holocaust Documentary on PBS Whitewashes FDR

Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff says Ken Burns's new documentary, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," whitewashes FDR's record on saving Jews.

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America’s Holocaust failure through the lens of 21st-century politics

Ken Burns’s new documentary focuses on immigration law and anti-Semitism in ways that both illuminate and distort the lessons of history while largely giving a pass to FDR.

Ken Burns is a dirtbag who recently compared the flying of 50 illegal immigrant to Martha’s Vineyard to the Holocaust. His only concern in making this documentary was to exploit the deaths of six million Jews to push his political agenda. Which is why he rescued to talk about FDR’s refusal to help the Jews of Europe. This is yet another example of leftists exploiting, and therefore demeaning the memory of the most horrific genocide in human history.

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American filmmaker Ken Burns has a Palestine problem

Why is Burns trying to disqualify Palestine from the conversation? Why resort to a technicality about sovereignty in order to try to push Palestine out of the discussion?

Jen Burns turned out to be a real bastard. Just like the Democrat’s hero FDR.

“Sadly, Roosevelt chose to keep Jews out of the Virgin Islands, despite the offer by the governor and legislative assembly of that territory to open their doors to Jews fleeing Hitler.”

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Has Wolf Blitzer’s father just pulled the rug out from under filmmaker Ken Burns?

Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.

Ken Burns is a total hack. First his woke documentary on Benjamin Franklin, and now, as a typical leftist, a whitewashing of FDR’s Jew hatred, and repulsive behavior during the Holocaust because FDR is a democrat hero.