Pope asks a fair question. The answers that I've read revolve around limits in munitions (bombs) and aircraft shortages, and range all the way toward the difficulty in destroying rail lines without a sustained air campaign (re-strikes).
I've read FDR didn't want the war to become one of saving the Jews in Europe. It was easier to rally the people around defeating the Nazis than saving the Jews.
‘I’ve read FDR didn’t want the war to become one of saving the Jews in Europe. It was easier to rally the people around defeating the Nazis than saving the Jews.”
FDR was an anti-Semite and there was quite of lot of anti-Semitism in the US at that time.
If true, FDR will have to answer for that. But I’m thinking that the way to stop the holocaust was to end the war as soon as possible. Diverting air strikes to hit the rail lines might have hindered the Final Solution, but it wouldn’t have stopped it. And every airstrike that went at those lines meant a strategic target went un-hit extending the war.
It’s a tough-call. But what I object to is the Pope seems to assign blame to every citizen alive today in every country that was part of the Allied Powers.