sentences:  The US government similarly feared turning the war into one about the Jews; antisemitism and isolationism were common in the US before its entry into the war.Although governments and the German public appear to have understood what was happening, it seems the Jews themselves did not.According to Saul Friedländer, "[t]estimonies left by Jews from all over occupied Europe indicate that, in contradistinction to vast segments of surrounding society, the victims did not understand what was ultimately in store for them."