‘You kill the people there with the bombs but shut down the gas chamber.”
Not if you bomb the gas chamber alone. Not to mention the german controlled areas. Of course we didnt have that level of precision at that time but the only purpose of this story is to make Bush look bad.
You are right. After the NAZIs gained power in the 30’s, these camps popped up all over the country and they predate the Jewish genocide. So it was not surprising to have photos of camps. The accuracy of a 500 lb bomb from a B17 was within a half mile. Thats why we sent up to a thousand at a time with 8000 lbs of bombs a piece. We didn’t know where in the city we were hitting, but we would certainly hit something.
In hindsight people think it was a foregone conclusion that we would win the war. That was only apparent in late ‘44 when were firmly on the continent. Right up until the end of the war we had to hit their war machine relentlessly. We could have bombed their concentration camps to no avail, but we would save more lives getting that war won faster.