Holocaust- Bomb The Tracks?

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(10-07-2019, 04:08 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This.

We could not liberate the camps until we took out the Nazi's.

Bombing railroad tracks would probably just have meant they were killed somewhere else.

Where?  And how?  

The concentration camps were created for mass murders (and some forced labour or just to keep them all in one place) and it's not like it could just be done anywhere.

Auschwitz II could kill 12,000 people a day, which didn't require many men or many resources.

(10-10-2019, 01:09 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Yep, even if we did bomb the tracks they'd have them rebuilt in a matter of days. It's a much sounder policy to make all efforts at beating the Nazi war machine than it is to get out in the weeds on this mission and that. Especially when said missions deep behind enemy lines and out of our operational area are most likely going to have very, very little impact on the atrocities.

The pilots, men, planes, fuel, gas, effort and so on will stop the Nazi's much quicker being spent where it matters most.

It's not like we'd just bomb a small section, five guys show up, lay some new track, and it's done.  

For one, the land would have been have holes in it that would have made it uneven and impossible to do, even if it were that easy.

Two, that requires more men and more materials, which weren't exactly in abundance.