The arguement is that they could have bombed the rail
lines to the camps and even the camps themselves.
The allies focus was the destruction of the Nazi war
machine, the jews paid the price.
Never have understood why some effort wasn’t made to
interdict.
Then they would have just shot them all like at Babi Yar.
Sporadic reports during the time of the killing fields in Cambodia also elicited nothing from the west or the peanut farmer. Recall the Rwandan slaughter when the toon did absolutely nothing or worse. FDR sort of set a template no?
Bombing strikes were conducted by men who were shot all to Hell and back. Ever watch ‘Twelve O’Clock High’ with Gregory Peck? It’s still watched in the War College for lessons in leadership.
Every bombing mission was calculated based on reconnaissance photos for the purpose of taking out the Nazi war machine, not for bombing tracks of detainment camps based on allegations of atrocities.
Interviews were conducted of detention camps and the Nazis put on a show to show how well those detained were treated. There was no direct evidence of the atrocities that were occurring.
A large percentage of the brave American men that flew in those critical bombing missions were shot dead or died as their bombers crashed. Given a target as a German munitions factory versus train tracks leading to a detainment camp where alleged things were happening, and given the high probability that those flying in the mission would never return alive, the choice was clear.
The probability of being shot dead or dying in a crash was so high that many flight crews requested transfer. The strategic bombing effort nearly failed until the leadership and the men flying accepted that death was likely. That persons like Netanyahu would not honor the American war effort and all those that died in battling the Nazis is an egregious slander to true heroes.
Netanyahu shows himself to be a puny little man who has not one iota of the courage that American soldiers, sailors and marines expressed during WWII.
“The arguement is that they could have bombed the rail
lines to the camps and even the camps themselves.
The allies focus was the destruction of the Nazi war
machine, the jews paid the price.
Never have understood why some effort wasn’t made to
interdict.”
I can understand why the camps were not prime targets in the war effort. I’ve never understood why the holocaust was kept secret by our leaders until the camps were being liberated by our troops.