Plot
Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.
Cast
Peter Coyote
as Self - Narrator
Daniel Mendelsohn
as Self - Writer
Peter Hayes
as Self - Historian
Deborah Lipstadt
as Self - Historian
Meryl Streep
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Daniel Greene
as Self - Historian
Guy Stern
as Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army
Rebecca Erbelding
as Self - Historian
Werner Herzog
as Hermann Göring
Paul Giamatti
as Madison Grant