Posted on 11/17/2025 6:04:25 AM PST by silent majority rising
Discover the shocking secret map President Truman found in FDR's desk that revealed Roosevelt knew about Nazi concentration camps since 1942 but refused to bomb them. Learn the disturbing truth about the railway lines to Auschwitz that could have been destroyed, the tens of thousands of lives that might have been saved, and the sick political calculations behind Roosevelt's decision. This is the hidden Holocaust document that changed how Truman viewed his predecessor forever and shaped America's approach to humanitarian crises. Explore the moral failure FDR tried to hide and why Truman sealed these documents for decades.
“I don’t know about clickbait, but I never believed the story [i.e., “LIE”] that the Allies didn’t know anything about the DEATH CAMPS before soldiers stumbled upon them.”
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The first thing that you see when you enter Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial, is a reconnaissance photo taken by an American aircraft of the Auschwitz-Burkenau camp complex. It was taken because some coal gasification plant that we wanted to bomb which was located about 5 miles away. The photograph specifically identifies guard and prisoner barracks, gas chambers and crematoria - and that identification was done by the U.S. AAF at the time, not afterwards by Israel or anyone else. The picture is there to show, beyond any doubt, that the U.S. in particular, as well as the allies, knew exactly what was going on.
I also attended Georgetown University and had a class in 1981 or 1982 in which we had a substitute professor on one occasion. His name was Jan Karski, and he was a Polish Army officer who had seen the extermination camps with his own eyes, and reported back to the allies, having directly reported his observations to both Churchill and Roosevelt. Here’s more on Karski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karski
Yeah, we fucking knew and didn’t do ANYTHING.
But it shocks the modern conscience to say so, but World War II was not fought over the well-being of the Jewish people.
That said, though, Hitler stated many times, that he considered it a war “against Global Jewry”.
Yes, mine is more educated and informed than yours. Mine is not an opinion, it’s simply fact based. America was not letting in refugees in 1930s at all, America was not even letting immigrants into America at all. The Ellis Island era was completely over And did not open again until the Teddy Kennedy bill in 65. The last thing we could do is lead in a shipload of poverty, stricken people into depression, stricken America, and yes, sweetie, if you let in one shipload of refugees, there would’ve been a flood coming in from Europe. And yes, you may not like it, but European Judaism was very familiar with, and friendly towards socialism, there was no freaking Way, Roosevelt could or should have a loud in a wave of European Jews in the 30s when American people were starving and the third of the country was out of work. Those are facts, you’re the one with opinions I know chicks are driven emotionally, and you just want to hug everybody as happened recently during the Biden immigration wave. But it wasn’t in the car in the 1930s in America.
“Railway lines could typically be repaired in hours by the Germans.”
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But doing so, or bombing the easier-to-hit targets of the camps themselves, would have sent an unmistakable signal to the Germans that we knew and that, therefore, they would be held accountable later, so that some German officers might stop the continued slaughter. But we (FDR) did nothing. No bombing, no diplomatic messages to stop or else, no public announcement. Nothing - FDR stood by and let the slaughter continue.
The Germans knew that we knew, they didn’t care. They were proud of what they were doing.
He did, and also against Bolsheviks. Burn the Brits went to war because Poland was invaded. It was an effort to stop Hitler conquering Europe. Roosevelt recognized the danger if England fell and assisted as much as he could her away with.
Then the Japanese attacked, and we went to war against the entire axis. But I think it would be a stress to say World War II was fought for the well-being of the Jews. One interesting tidbit to remember, Zionist, after the war, and before Israel was established murdered around 750 British soldiers in Palestine. The British government didn’t have any particular affection for Judaism back then. And back in the 30s and 40s they were correctly seen as being big advocates for socialism. That scared a lot of people.
Yes, mine is more educated and informed than yours. Mine is not an opinion, it’s simply fact based.
LOL you’re no longer simply laughable....you’re also quite arrogant.
Stop with your nonsense posts to me, please.
The decision NOT to divert resources to the trains going to the camps was logical. The overarching goal was to end the war as quickly as possible and the camps stopped.
Very old news for anyone who has read deeply about WWII. Considering the then state-of-the-art of “precision” bombing in WWII. Such an operation would have killed more Jews, others then the Nazis were killing in a comparable amount of time. Then Nazis would have said “thank you” and had the camps and railroads to them up and running in less then 24 hours. Killing Jews and others were so important to that regime that delivering victims to the camps had a higher priority then munitions to the German armies. Several known instances of those diversions where trains feeding camps delayed troop supplies.
This little item is being resurfaced in the public mind for some reason. I doubt if it’s mere historical curiosity.
Werner Kleperer played Colonel Klink, not Sergeant Schultz.
See the movie Judgement at Nurenberg to see him play a very non-comical Nazi. He played that role brilliantly
Werner Kleperer played Colonel Klink, not Sergeant Schultz.
Ugggh! I hate senior moments.
John Banner - Johann Banner (born in Austria) played Sgt Schultz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banner
Leon Askin, who played General Burkhalter, fled Austria in the 1930s, and lived to the age of 97.
If I was going to bomb railroads, I think I’d go after the rail hubs, and yards. Rail was much more important in those days than now. Destroy the infrastructure if feasible.
yes
My favorite was always Major Hochstetter!
Who is this man? Who is this man?
That always cracked me up!
Jewish actor- Howard Caine (Cohen) originally from Nashville TN
Askin was also in “One, Two, Three” as a member of the Russian trade delegation.
Borodenko: When will papers be ready?
C.R. Macnamara: I’ll put my secretary right to work on it.
Mishkin: Your secretary? She’s that blonde lady?
C.R. Macnamara: That’s the one.
Peripetchikoff: [after conferring with the others] You will send papers to East Berlin with blonde lady in triplicate.
C.R. Macnamara: You want the papers in triplicate, or the blonde in triplicate?
Peripetchikoff: See what you can do.
I had forgotten that film!
“The Germans knew that we knew, they didn’t care. They were proud of what they were doing.”
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A good number of those evil bastards were undoubtedly proud of it, but they also did their level best to cover up what they KNEW was a massive crime as they began to realize that the war was going to be lost. They literally dug up bodies all over Europe to cremate them, so that the evidence would be destroyed. Then they destroyed gas chambers and crematoria as they left the camps. Then they marched the survivors away from the camps, so that they could ensure that they didn’t talk (mainly to the Russians, as that front was where most of the death factories were located). Of course, that large and monstrous of a crime could never be covered up completely (especially given the German penchant for documenting everything), but that fact doesn’t change the motivations and fears of the Germans regarding accountability.
This whole "FDR knew about extermination camps and did nothing" just smells like standard propaganda used by the progressive left to blame the United States for every evil in the world, if not directly than indirectly.
People also tend to forget that it wasn't the US that declared war on Hitler but rather the reverse, and (more importantly) that the US had more immediate economic and national security concerns than the fate of central and eastern European Jews. Dealing with a declared war against Europe and Asia's premier military and industrial powers was a much more pressing concern.
As for why the Soviets didn't do more, the Nazis treated Slavic people marginally better than they treated Jews (i.e. some Slavs would be allowed to live to serve as slaves for Germany, rather than being killed outright like Jews). So it's rather comical to think that Russians (or Poles) would make rescuing Jews their first and foremost priority when they themselves were on the chopping block, or for that matter if various eastern European people don't really think that the plight of the Jews was all that special since many of them hardly had it any better.
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