Why didnt the united states do anything about the jewish Holocaust?

Answer 1

We did. It was called world war 2.

Answer 2

I don't think there is a reason, but apathaty and indifference.

It is known for a FACT that the United States of America knew about the Holocaust at the time, about the death camps, gas chambers, massacres, death marches etc and did not do anything to stop it (so did the United Kingdom, by the way).
When the Americans were asked for the reason they did not bomb Auschwitz and the railroads, their answer was as following:
1) We did not want to harm the prisoners of the camp, and any effort to help them would only harm our fights against the Germans.
2) We did not have enough human resources and money to get to the area and do so.

Both statements are very questionable:
1) The prisoners were about to die anyway (and quite sufferingly if I may). Bombing the area would ensure the deceleration of the annihilation. Bombing Auschwitz would distract the Americans from their fighting with the Germans? Sounds a bit strange... The survivors of Auschwitz told that every time they heard the American planes and bombs they wished they would bomb the camp. What leads us to the second strange statement...
2) Despite the formal response of the USA, many of the pilots who were sent to the battlefront told that they passed over Auschwitz and its railroads many many times on their way to bomb the Germans. Auschwitz was indeed reachable and bombing it did not require any special effort.

Actually, the question either to bomb it or not was not even up to discussion, as one of the pilots said.

The sad truth is that America was not so keen to save the Jews as much as the Germans were keen to kill them.
Maybe it's because Anti-Semitism in America was not the taboo it is today, and many important people in the army and government weren't all into saving the Jews. I read that some of them did not even bother themselves to pass the information they've got about the massacres further.
Maybe the US was afraid of the refugees problem and did not want to accept any more immigrants.

This way or another, the Americans do not have a satisfying and reasonable explenation for the blind eye they've turned.

Answer 3

The United States felt that it was not their war (which makes a change for them) and would never have become involved at all if the Japanese had not bombed Pearl Harbour. It was a terrible and tragic happening which made America realise that they were not untouchable. Their entry into the war probably hastened its end but do not be mistaken. Great Britain and the other European countries who held out against The Third Reich won the war. No Englishman would ever have succumbed to a government by the Nazis or any government not elected by the British people.

Answer 4

They did. The Allies won the war. But the United States was not fully aware of the extent of the Holocaust until it was too late. If you meant to ask why the U.S. didn't do more to prevent the Holocaust...that is an entirely different question.

Answer 5

Other than getting involved in the war there was probably not much more that could have been done. Although, there was much more anti-Semitism in the United States at that time - so that probably impeded other types interferences (if there was any other way to interfere with the Nazis other than war).

Genocide is going on in the world right now - what are we or any other countries really doing about this?

Answer 6

no one knew about the holocaust until after the Americans Invaded Normandy. we did do stuff we liberated many camps in Germany, one of the most infamous was the Auchwits facility. we did all we could to help them but of course it just was too little too late.

Answer 7

One reason was because of appeasement. the U.S. had seen the horrors of WWI and were afraid of another war that bloody, so they were trying not to get Germany so angry that a war started. Also, I don't think the U.S. knew very much about the terrible things hitler was doing until American troops actually went to the places where Hitler was operating.

Answer 8

I guess defeating the Hitlerites and the Nazis wasn't good enough???? Opening a second front before June1944 wasn't militarily feasible.....An attack sooner than that date would've prolonged the war or worse...an iron curtain that reached to the Atlantic. Nice try tho.

Answer 9

Nobody knew that it was going on until our troops were actually in Germany.....near the end of the war. That's when the concentration camps (and mass graves) were discovered.

Answer 10

Not a lot of people knew about it unitl it was too late. Not even some German citizens knew what was going on.