Posted on 11/17/2025 6:04:25 AM PST by silent majority rising
There have been several dramatizations of The Wannsee Conference.
This is the best one, IMHO
Die Wannseekonferenz (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ug_MXToEE
That’s another thing, the holocaust of bullet bullets exceeded the gas chambers. There was no way we could reach those in eastern Poland and Ukraine. But the argument in this video was that we could’ve bombed the rails to Auschwitz and changed everything. We couldn’t put an airplane over Auschwitz at the height of the Extermination. and even if we could, we didn’t even know about Treblinka, Sobibor, and a dozen other camps that didn’t even come to light until after the war because nobody survived operation Reinhardt. It was a freaking Hercules task to bomb Germany anywhere except the coastal ports before 44. The first major USAF raid on Berlin didn’t happen until early 44. People have magical thinking and just assume our bombers and fighters had unlimited range early in the war. It was a long time building up the power we had late in the war the sad truth, is that the fastest way to stop the killing was to kill Nazi Germany, and we lost several hundred thousand doing that. Germans are famously efficient, even if we managed to somehow make it impossible to get Jew to the camps, Germans would’ve killed them somewhere else, with bullets, with gas trucks, etc. And we would’ve happily bombed those areas if we could’ve around Auschwitz, Auschwitz supplied massive amounts of war, industry, labor. We would’ve loved to have bombed those factories. But you just couldn’t get there. I have a feeling this recurring story has more to do with the politics of the formation of Israel, and possibly some effort to get compensation from the US government in some form.
And God knows they tried as hard as they could, but in 1942 we were barely surviving in the war. In the Pacific, we were fighting for our lives, and the battles with the Japanese were deadly. Our efforts in northern Africa were chaotic, almost amateur. The beginnings of the eighth air force were very slow and small. 42 and 43 were desperate times for us.
It’s shameful to pretend America could have stopped it and didn’t.
I grew up a skant 20 years after WWII, in a neighborhood where Jew-osity was not an issue. And I chillingly remember thinking, "That's funny, but why are we still making these jokes? The horrors of the camps are TWO DECADES past, and the ENTIRE WORLD knows what happened. We'll never see hatred like that again."
Here I am, fifty years later, and the foaming, frothing mouth of hatred is again at the door. And our schools have done SO LITTLE to teach about it, graphically, that an entire generation is HAPPY to be chanting "RIVER TO THE SEA" in order to champion the POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR PALISTINIANS that they think that frothing, celebratory hatred is peachy keen. Brainwashed by liberal professors and teachers, and so un-teatherd to actual self-worth that they have to join the maniacal throng to make themselves feel noble.
Here's an AL Stewart song that I can't remember how to link, but OH, it echos the Knot Zee shouts of the past... and the college kids, aging white women, and general blue-hairs who are out for the blood of the innocents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt7yEnuXxeY&list=RDgt7yEnuXxeY&start_radio=1
And bombing the railroad line was technically very difficult in 1943. It’s a small target a long way from airfields in England. Only heavy bombers could have reached it, and they weren’t suited to bombing at low altitude.
Yes, I read that too. FDR didn’t want to give Americans any reason to think we were fighting this war to help the Jews.
Some of it is driven by FDR-derangement syndrome. Say what you will about the man, and while I didn’t care for much of his domestic policies, I’m glad he was President during WWII.
Bomb them? What, kill 10,000 Jews and 100 guards?
Heck, Roosevelt KNEW the Japs were going to attack Pearl Harbor. What a sick demented monster he was. Fought with the communists to remove a man who despised communism.
Thank God. Imagine the hate from the left if Truman had been a Republican who decided to use atomic bombs.
Roosevelt knew war was inevitable when the Germans invaded Poland.
But 95% of the country was dead-set against it.
They had come around somewhat when they saw Britain being bombed during The Blitz.
And the fact is, since we obtained Hawaii and The Philippines during The Spanish-American War, that set us on a collision course with Japan, it was only a matter of time.
And since that required beefing up our Pacific Fleet, it left us vulnerable in The Atlantic. That’s why we needed the Royal Navy, and could not risk it coming under Nazi control.
I have no doubt that Roosevelt and other higher-ups had received many reports about the camps and eventually, they believed them, but I'm not sure we could've got there any quicker though.
Oh believe me, go to any YouTube video about the bombs, they equate Truman with Hitler.
Did nothing?
I’m sure there are some, but it’s minor and not like the big media saying over and over and over again that Trump is “literally” Hitler.
We simply didn’t have the capability to bomb Auschwitz’ until 44. To suggest otherwise is simply dishonest. And we didn’t know about places like Belzec, Treblinka etc until the end of the war. Belzec is an example. After it finished its work it was dismantled, the site was razed, and a caretaker was placed in a fake farmhouse to keep an eye on it. There were 6 large extermination camps and numerous smaller ones. We barely had an inkling of where and what. Poland had a huge network of rail that arrives at almost every town. And we couldn’t hit plans and eastern Germany into after D-Day with operation frantic.
Well said about FDR
Of course nobody complains about the Soviets not bombing the camps, even though they were more than capable of it.
And a lot of Republicans, back then, who hated his guts, felt the same way.
I note that he appointed two Republicans: Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War, and Frank Knox as Secretary of the Navy.
Worse yet, he made secret deals at Tehran, which blindsided Truman, once in the Oval Office.
Churchill and Stalin were flabbergasted with FDR's incompetence, at their meetings. During those negotiations, nothing at all was told to Truman ... so he was working blind.
AND, all of the FDR people he inherited were lying to him!!
Churchill and Stalin were flabbergasted with FDR’s incompetence
Churchill had his moments, too, so he wasn’t one to talk.
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