Most Americans were either apathetic to German politics because of domestic issues, or they thought that “Hitler was a clown—he’s going to take over power and everyone is going to see he’s a blooming idiot.’” The founding president of the JLC, B.C.

The instruments of torture that Hitler has prepared for the Jews have been turned on the labor unionists.” As the JLC grew in size and influence it worked tirelessly to challenge Nazi power.

United in the struggle, mothers and little old ladies held giant cardboard signs to picket stores selling products that were produced under the Third Reich.

When the campaign failed and American athletes traveled across the ocean to compete, the JLC organized the “Counter-Olympics” at Randall's Island in New York City.

At the same time that apathetic, isolationist and anti-war Americans were saying things like this, from an archival clip used in this documentary: "Let the Germans fight their battle, they mean nothing to us," the JLC was busy arranging for aid to get to people who would eventually be part of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.