Refusing the boats, and Canada did it as well so we’re equally culpable for we did do, set them up to be sent into the gas chambers.
There’s no question that the US government knew, but kept it from the US population as to the conditions that Jews were facing, including pogroms.
It’s a regrettable time in history. Nothing wrong with saying so.
It doesn’t mean you’re evil today.
The first gas chambers weren’t constructed until 1942. At the time , in the ‘30s most of America was unaware of just what was happening to Jews in Germany. And no American, in government or without could have imagined in 1933 what would eventually be discovered in 1945. 400,435 Americans didn’t give their lives in The Second World War out of the premise of a guilty conscience because ‘’we didn’t let Jews into America’’. America didn’t create gas chambers. The Germans did.