why didn't they try and stop the holocaust?

Question

why didn't they some one tell me I really need to know because this is a very good question for some one like me just try and answer it

Answer 1

I guess winning the war and defeating the Germans wasn't good enough? I think you may be asking is why didn't we conquer the German's sooner? But even that question is a little out of context, as the Allies went about the invasion of the Atlantic Wall and the Eastern Front as fast as they could...although i see that the Red Army stopped just short of Warsaw during the Polish uprising, causing more Poles to die than there should have.

Some people wonder why the railways leading into Auswitz weren't bombed. I have to believe that the extent of the state-sponsored genocide was not known and that the few reports that did get out were too fantastic to believe.

Answer 2

Because, the Nazis kept it well hidden, and the only clues that the allies ever gained seemed to be terribly unlikely and even stupid.

Forget what you know now, and try to see what the allied commanders actually were finding out. They had ariel photographs of trains, but what are trains used for in wartime; shipping supplies. Why on earth would the Germans not use all of their eastern railways to supplies soldiers fighting the USSR. The diversion of troops, supplies and transport required for the holocaust seemed too stupid to actually be happening. Germany was losing a 3 front war, and all logic says that those trains in Poland were heading to supply depots, not death camps.

Most Danes were involved to some extant with the protection of Jews. This is one of the reasons why most of Denmark's Jewish people survived the holocaust. Many were smuggled into neutral Sweden. Frenchman smuggled Jews into Switzerland.

The allies didn't know that many of the camps existed until after soldiers found them. These soldiers inadvertantly stopped the holocaust. Read the book below, it is quite entertaining and recounts many actions carried out by Europeans living under Nazi occupation. It's truely regrettable that many of these people are nearly forgotten today.

Answer 3

I think that the Allies did all they could at the time to try and stop the Holocaust. The only thing that they really could do to stop it was to invade Europe and free the camps. Unfortunately, for many in the camps, it took years to gather all of the men and material necessary for a successful invasion. And the Germans wouldn't have given up without a fight. In fact, there was heavy German resistance all of the way into Berlin in 1945. Some claim that the Allies could've bombed the railroad tracks that transported the Jews to the camps. The only problem was that if they bombed and destroyed the railroad tracks, the Germans could've easily re-built them--probably using slave labor from the camps. The only true way to stop the Holocaust was to defeat Nazi Germany and free the camps.

Answer 4

An American philosopher observed, many many years ago that "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". Even when good men were fighting Germany - interfering with the Holocaust was a low priority. The Germans were able to do it because nobody was interested in stopping them, and if they had not developed the habit of invading other peoples countries - why they would still be with us.
Invading places like Iran and Kuwait was Saddam's big mistake - not killing Iraqis on an industrial scale. No one was bothered about that until he became an international nuisance.

Answer 5

First of all, which "they" are you referencing to? Many countries, including the USA, were purposely oblivious to it and the signs of it's getting worse (the USA was extermely antisemetic at the time), though there were actually many individuals in all countries involved that did everything they could--even risking their own lives--to protect the Jews from harm or to escape Europe. The Jews were kind of confused at the time as to what was really going on, because they had always been treated--even in Germany where they had first been allowed in Europe to become part of the general population--like scum by people in general. However, once they were clear on what was really going on, they fought very hard against it. The most extreme of these Jewish fighters were the groups that hid in the forest and helped Jews to escape from modern Ghettos (like in Warsaw), and to frustrate Nazi military exercises. In a way, the Holocaust is still going on because of the number of detractors who say it never happened. That was the whole gist of the Holocaust, and even the reason the Nazis used crematoria to get rid of the bodies of the people they had killed--so forces of the UN, policing forces of other countries, etc., would not see proof of the horrifying devastation the Nazis had performed. Not only on Jews, either. On gays, gypsies, political dissenters, artists who were out of the box, and prisoners from other countries, mostly from Eastern Europe.

Answer 6

I disagree. Philosophers have raised many troublesome questions--what's the international like? How do we comprehend it? How ought to we stay? How ought to we prepare ourselves. Philosophy additionally provides innovations. It does so by skill of employing purpose and logic to the difficulty and searching for an answer. "Philosophy: Who desires It?" by making use of Ayn Rand is an super essay conversing approximately what philosophy is, why this is fundamental, and why each and every physique desires to make the main of it. Religions make assertions, inspite of the incontrovertible fact that there is room for question to an quantity. All innovations have an inner middle and outer, peripheral recommendations. The peripherals can consistently be questioned and the two altered or discarded without affecting the interior middle. working example, a man or woman can question how a ritual will ought to be executed or how a congregation will ought to be mentioned, and could accomplish that without affecting the interior middle of ideals very lots. the interior middle maximum possibly are no longer waiting to be puzzled at modern-day, whether some factors could additionally be altered extremely if the peripheral recommendations substitute significantly adequate, and then only over an prolonged direction of time. The historic previous of "heresies" that arose interior the church is one occasion of this, wherein curiously-middle recommendations have been challenged on the commencing place questioned peripheral concepts.

Answer 7

Darn good question.
Read "Problem from Hell"
In Gremany if anyone did say something they were on their way to the death camps.
The world was in denial of what the real horror of what was going on.
FDR trun away a ship full of Jews trying to get away.

The world has never every have the resolve to stop that kind of horror.

Stalin kill more but he was given a pass.
Look at what Japan did and to this day we are consider the bad guys for dropping two nukes on them.

It is a good question but the answer is something people don't like to face.

We have to admit there is evil in this world.

Like today with the Muslim terrorists people are still in denial going out of their way to face the truth.

It is not a nice pretty answer but it is the reality.

Answer 8

The United States and Britain, at the time, refused Jewish refugees who had escaped from Europe, and these countries dd not believe the tales being told by the refugees. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the power structure were prejudiced against the Jews, as well as other minorities.
There were people who did what they could at the time to help them, many of them ordinary German citizens, who recognized what was happening and knew they had to do something. The more the United States began to commit to the war in Europe, the more we began to see that the refugees had not been lying and then, defeating Germany began to take a more important place in the strategies of the War.
Truly, the fighters/soldiers of that war-that generation were the greatest generation. I highly recommend reading Tom Brokaw's book, The Greatest Generation, and I recommend talking to someone of that age group because they are slowly dying off, leaving us-the present generation-with only just books, instead of living history.

Answer 9

I think you'll find every single Jew, Homosexual and coloured person tried to stop and resist the holocaust with every inch of their entire being little girl.

Also, the UK and the rest of free Europe (and eventually the US) all declared war on the Nazi's after seeing them invade Poland and the rest of Europe.

Declaring war against a country and trying to stop them killing who they were killing, is pretty much trying to stop the holocaust wouldn't you say?

To be ignorant enough to say no-one tried to stop the holocaust is like not knowing that there was a second world war. That people went to war with the Nazi's.

Answer 10

No one outside of Germany really knew the extent of the holocaust until the war was nearly over. The allies thought that the people were in work camps, not death camps. We are still learning how horrible it was. New records and pictures have just been released.
Here is some information for you:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2274705n