[BroJoeK]

Excellent link!
Great find. I’ve never seen it expressed so clearly before.
Thanks.

[BroJoeK]

There is an admittedly imperfect comparison here which nevertheless bears noting.
The fact is that ordinary, every day anti-Semitism was pretty strong in America in the 1940s.
Many Americans did not want to be told they were being drafted into war, shipped across the ocean and thrown into a life-or-death struggle, to save the Jews.

The comparison is 1861 — at the war’s beginning, Union soldiers weren't told, and certainly didn't want to hear that they were being sent to fight & die to free the slaves.
In the Civil War that came later, step by step.
In WWII, it never really came.