Did the US Holocaust Memorial Museum self-censor to preempt Trump’s wrath?

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, has been accused by two former employees, speaking anonymously to Politico’s Irie Sentner, of altering language and programming to avoid provoking the Trump administration. Alleged changes include removing a web page titled “Teaching Materials on Nazism and Jim Crow,” unlisting a YouTube video of a 2018 conversation tied to a symposium on “Bystanders and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South,” and renaming a college workshop from “Fragility of Democracy and the Rise of the Nazis” to “Before the Holocaust: German Society and the Nazi Rise to Power,” before later canceling it. An internal email cited “concerns regarding how the term fragility may be perceived or interpreted in the current climate.” A USHMM spokesperson denied that the museum retreated from the content and said neither the Trump administration nor others ordered changes.

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