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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

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Is America a Passover?

In 1938, just two weeks after Kristallnacht, only one in five Americans said the US should admit more Jewish exiles. The documentary cites shocking national polls to make the point. Lynn Novick partly blames widespread American xenophobia. Celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh was the face of it. He was an icon. They had songs about him. And he really believed a kind of ugly, anti-Semitic white supremacist ideology that the Nordic race should prevail. America clapped.

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