Holocaust- Bomb The Tracks?

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(10-07-2019, 03:20 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The allied forces seemed shock at the level of the atrocities they discovered when liberating these camps after the war.  Not sure how much info our military leaders had during the war regarding the mass exterminations.

Or maybe they figured that bombing railroad tracks would not save anyone.  Instead it would just change where they were murdered.  If the Nazi's could not ship the victims to camps they probably would have just killed them in some other fashion.

This site states that the powers of the US, UK, and even Russia knew about the crimes at least two-and-a-half years earlier than is generally assumed:

Quote:The Allied Powers were aware of the scale of the Jewish Holocaust two-and-a-half years earlier than is generally assumed, and had even prepared war crimes indictments against Adolf Hitler and his top Nazi commanders.

Newly accessed material from the United Nations – not seen for around 70 years – shows that as early as December 1942, the US, UK and Soviet governments were aware that at least two million Jews had been murdered and a further five million were at risk of being killed, and were preparing charges. Despite this, the Allied Powers did very little to try and rescue or provide sanctuary to those in mortal danger.

It makes you wonder if they knew even earlier than that.

Also, if they knew that Jews were being transferred from the ghettos to these concentration camps, what did they think was happening?  How was there even room for more Jews if they weren't being mass murdered?