Holocaust- Bomb The Tracks?

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(01-20-2020, 03:05 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: This article presents some insights into American thoughts on Jewish people prior to WWII:

http://thejewishvoice.com/2020/01/15/historians-unveil-new-research-on-us-response-to-the-holocaust/?fbclid=IwAR0hKhBhDFeFtUzYMKUN6xV4hvURB7YJ2aJclJ3KeUHv0pqCXBAt4k065WI



Interestingly enough, Brad's question from the OP is also brought up in the past last few paragraphs.

MAYBE it wasn't such a stupid question by me after all?!

The possibility of killing prisoners while bombing the gas chambers seems stupid to me and like a cop-out because they were likely going to die anyways, especially if they could bomb the actual gas chambers, and we would have saved so many more lives.

(01-20-2020, 03:27 AM)Benton Wrote: Stopping genocide was an interest among some, but the main issue was stopping the Nazi war machine.

We targeted military strengths, not people saving strikes.

It makes for good movies to have Americans help liberate Jews from camps, but our main targets were stopping Nazi advances because they'd beaten the crap out of people we were selling stuff to.

Makes sense but it just doesn't seem like it would have detracted too much from the main war effort.