After decades of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts the United States to pass laws restricting immigration.

After Kristallnacht, Germany’s Jews are desperate to escape Hitler’s tyranny. Americans are united in their disapproval of Nazi brutality, but remain divided on how to respond.

First reports of the industrial scale of killing reach the United States. As the Allies advance, soldiers uncover mass graves, revealing the full horror of the Holocaust.