I'm thinking primarily of Ben Hecht's "Ballad of the Doomed Jews of Europe" that ran in The New York Times in 1943.

I'm curious about how American officials portrayed it as it was happening. The received education people get is the Second World War was a Manichean battle against evil. The backswing of the pendulum poses that the Americans knew the Holocaust was happening but only brought it up mostly after the war as post-hoc glorification of their involvement.

What can historians here bring to this?

Did officials know it was happening? Which officials? How did they know? Did they tailor their response to public will? What was the public opinion on involvement for humanitarian reasons?

Thanks a lot!