Holocaust- Bomb The Tracks?

[BFritz21]

(10-07-2019, 02:11 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Railroad tracks were a pretty small target for the technology they had back then.

I assume they did all they could to disrupt transportation behind the lines.  Not just for concentration camps but for all types of fuel and supplies.

But with many planes dropping a lot of bombs, it's a pretty safe bet that they could have at least destroyed some of it, especially if the planes flew lower.  They bombed aircraft carriers, which, while much wider than railroad tracks, shows that it could be done.  Especially if they launched a line of planes and had them all release at the same time because some bombs were obviously bound to hit the rails or the explosions would be large enough to damage the tracks.

The only information that I could find sounds like we didn't want to waste war resources on bombing the tracks, which seems like a pretty bogus excuse:

Quote:In reality, McCloy's position was based on the Roosevelt administration’s standing policy that military resources should not be used for "rescuing victims of enemy oppression."

That seems like a cop-out.

It wouldn't have taken many resources to drop some bombs and they could have done it in areas not heavily occupied by Germans (or at least in areas where the German planes weren't really near).  I realize that it was the depression and resources were scarce, but it would have been big in saving lives and in just stopping the Germans.

My old professor saying that the plane having a picture from above showing the tracks makes it even more puzzling for me.