“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great.
She has become a haunt for demons.
She is a cage for every unclean spirit,
a cage for every unclean bird,
[a cage for every unclean] and disgusting [beast].
3 For all the nations have drunk
the wine of her licentious passion.
The kings of the earth had intercourse with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury.”
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Depart from her my people,
so as not to take part in her sins
and receive a share in her plagues,
5 for her sins are piled up to the sky,
and God remembers her crimes.
6 Pay her back as she has paid others.
Pay her back double for her deeds.
Into her cup pour double what she poured.
7 To the measure of her boasting and wantonness
repay her in torment and grief;
for she said to herself,
‘I sit enthroned as queen;
I am no widow,
and I will never know grief.’
8 Therefore, her plagues will come in one day,
pestilence, grief, and famine;
she will be consumed by fire.
For mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
9The kings of the earth who had intercourse with her in their wantonness will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her pyre.
10They will keep their distance for fear of the torment inflicted on her, and they will say:
“Alas, alas, great city,
Babylon, mighty city.
In one hour your judgment has come.”
11The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because there will be no more markets for their cargo:
12 their cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine linen, purple silk, and scarlet cloth; fragrant wood of every kind, all articles of ivory and all articles of the most expensive wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human beings.
14 “The fruit you craved has left you. All your luxury and splendor are gone, never again will one find them.”
15 The merchants who deal in these goods, who grew rich from her, will keep their distance for fear of the torment inflicted on her. Weeping and mourning, 16 they cry out: “Alas, alas, great city,
wearing fine linen, purple and scarlet, adorned [in] gold, precious stones, and pearls.
17 In one hour this great wealth has been ruined.” Every captain of a ship, every traveler at sea, sailors, and seafaring merchants stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her pyre, “What city could compare with the great city?” "
19They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning: “Alas, alas, great city, in which all who had ships at sea grew rich from her wealth. In one hour she has been ruined.
20Rejoice over her, heaven, you holy ones, apostles, and prophets. For God has judged your case against her.” 21A mighty angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone and threw it into the sea and said:
“With such force will Babylon the great city be thrown down, and will never be found again.
22No melodies of harpists and musicians, flutists and trumpeters, will ever be heard in you again. No craftsmen in any trade will ever be found in you again. No sound of the millstone will ever be heard in you again.
23 No light from a lamp will ever be seen in you again. No voices of bride and groom will ever be heard in you again. Because your merchants were the great ones of the world, all nations were led astray by your magic potion.
24 In her was found the blood of prophets and holy ones and all who have been slain on the earth.”
-Revelation 18
Not many may be open to this concept..
But hard to deny evil in high places.. and not just currently..
But embedded, in stealth and masked.. for a long time..
Pointing out that Farben was a customer of Standard Oil at one point before the war ... so what? Heck, IBM's German *subsidiary* provided the card machines that helped to organize the Holocaust. That's a lot closer association.
Occam's Razor: the answer is really much simpler. First, long-range bombing of a railroad track wasn't especially feasible in the 1940's. The target is too small, and too hard to find. You needed fighter/bomber's (e.g., P-47's) to do that from a low level in daytime, and that would have been a very difficult mission to fly.
Second, the Allies had only anecdotal evidence about what Auschwitz was (until the Russians liberated it). They decided on that basis that, whatever it was, it wasn't essential to the German war effort, and they chose to concentrate bombing on targets that were. (And, to put it coldly, the Holocaust *wasn't* essential to the German war effort; it was a major distraction from it, diverting scarce resources -- especially railroad rolling stock -- from war use.)
“The Allied Strategic Bombing Command had strict orders to leave Standard Oil’s colleague facility alone.”
Perhaps you should read a bit of history. Wikipedia reports that “Buna-Werke, the I.G. Farben industrial complex located adjacent to the Monowitz forced labor camp (Auschwitz III) located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the Auschwitz I camp was bombed four times, starting at 20 August 1944 until 26 December 1944.”
Sounds like the Allied Strategic Bombing Command did bomb the I.G. Farben complex at Auschwitz at least four times.
There is an excellent article about this issue at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_bombing_debate
Even the Jewish refugee organizations had serious doubts about the efficacy of bombing to stop the killing a Auschwitz.