Holocaust- Bomb The Tracks?

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Another issue not really discussed much here is the fact there were a lot more of those camps than most people realize and they were spread all over occupied Nazi territories and some not so occupied areas as well. There were over 42,500 documented Nazi ghettos with several sub camps assigned to almost all and many were located very close to population centers. Even more that were never documented. And that number doesn't even include the notorious concentration camps most people are familiar with like Auschwitz and others. The overwhelming air support force needed to even make a dent in that system would have made strategic bombing and close air support nearly impossible. Another issue overlooked is that people still had to travel even when they had little to nothing to do with the war. They couldn't halt all rail travel everywhere in Europe which is what would have had to have been done for all intents and purposes. Remember, back then very few ordinary citizens owned cars at the time and roads were spotty at best. The system began springing up like wild fire immediately after the Nazi's took power and even before then Europe often systematically discriminated against anyone not belonging to many, many different types of groups and ethnic clan type organizations. Europe had never really recovered from the first world war so it was still in tatters throughout most of Europe  It simply took a far lower priority because the Nazi war machine was so huge. They were fighting an offensive war against a very aggressive enemy on several fronts. Even had they made huge efforts to bomb those rail lines it's very likely millions upon millions more civilians would have been killed in the process with the war dragging on far longer than needed. This doesn't even touch on the massive propaganda before and during the war against not only Jews, but many other groups such as homosexuals, gypsies, anyone with a disability deemed unuseful to society, criminals or anyone with what was seen as antisocial tendencies, etc., etc., not to mention the need for slave labor. Many camps were not organized official camps, but ad hoc systems run by paramilitary groups, by political-police forces, and sometimes by local police authorities and even local vigilante groups. They utilized any lockable larger space, for example: engine rooms, brewery floors, storage facilities, cellars, etc., all over Europe and in major metropolitan cities as well. That was a system that could only be effectively dealt with after the war was over if then and it still continued in much of the soviet system in different forms. And let's not forget that among the many groups targeted none had what we could reasonably call political power and even fewer had effective advocacy groups like we have today. Human rights at the time were pretty much non-existent. Being on just about anyone's shitlist was reason enough in most cases.