Opinion: It's time to confront the dark postscript to America's role in defeating the Nazis
Lev Golinkin writes that although the United States was critical in winning the war against Nazi Germany, the government also allowed some Nazi and Nazi collaborators to seek refuge in the US after the war. If we cannot be honest about coddling perpetrators of the Holocaust, we cannot hope to acknowledge the impact of centuries-old institutions like slavery and Jim Crow.