Holocaust- Bomb The Tracks?

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(10-10-2019, 02:01 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: 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.

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.

Brad for 1. to be of any real consequence they'd have to bomb fairly close to the camps, if they bomb 100, 200 miles away they'd just take alternate tracks and go around the bombed out section, so. 

2. To have any real impact they'd have to use up considerable tactical or a good bit of strategic bombing on a fairly regular basis. You can't just bomb it once and it's done for months. 

3. They'd have to detour fighters to cover said bombing pulling them off other missions. You think the Germans would just let bombers fly around with impunity ?

All this would pull considerable air power away from German tank and plane factory bombing.  It would pull fighter cover away from that and/or air cover for our troops.

It sounds good in theory but when put into practice in anything but a fairly full scale long term operation the results would be very limited. And the resources spent could save a lot more people, faster,  by focusing on ending the war as quick as possible through dropping the bombs where it hurts most.