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Americans All!

Americans all! How immigrants have influenced the American way of life.

1941 19 mins

Overview

The US is the "great and unfailing refuge of the world's oppressed and persecuted peoples" in this single-topic edition of the American newsreel. European immigrants from Nazi-occupied Europe follow in the footsteps of earlier Irish and German migrants - who though they were "once strangers are now amongst the nation's leaders." This edition of March of Time also makes reference to the rising hysteria against "foreign-born people" and attempts to counter the disquiet.