why the delay by the americans in stopping the jewish genocide by the germans?

Answer 1

The same reason no one got involved in the Armenian Genocide by the Turks or the twelve year Rawandan Genocide in Africa or why Europe did nothing about the Americans massacering Indians or why no one interferred in the millions who were exterminated in Communist China, or Communist Cambodia, or the Soviet Union - internal affairs in other countries are no one's business!

Answer 2

We can't ask FDR so we will never know for sure. However we can speculate. I do believe that the US had quite detailed knowledge of what was happening in Nazi Germany through Allen Dulles in Bern. Dulles to his credit did what he could, but he was a spy not a policy maker.

1. There was still a lot of anti-semitism in the US at the time, so FDR didn't want the war effort to seem like a "Jewish war".

2. Stalin felt much the same as Hitler when it came to Jews, and the Allies wanted to stick together. Stalin wanted to hear about the US destroying the German capacity to wage, not humanitarian efforts. FDR needed the votes of liberals and leftists and a lot of them were Jewish. Hence Jewish Americans tended to think highly of the the US-Soviet partnership, even though that was not necessarily a good thing for Jews in Europe.

3. FDR may have felt that if it stood up for the Jews, the Germans would just be all the more emboldened. Goebbels could claim, "The Jews and the Americans are conspiring together to destroy Germany, so killing Jews is a matter of self preservation."

4. FDR may have felt that ending the war ASAP was the best way to save lives. Hence %100 was give to destroying the German capacity to wage war, not bombing the tracks to the concentration camps etc.

5. FDR may have felt there was nothing he could to stop the killing but crush the Nazis. After all, bombing the tracks to camps etc. might just mean the Nazis would go back to killing Jews on the spot. If there was collateral damage during such an operation, then the propaganda would have the US killing Jews.

Answer 3

So you seem to take your war ideas from Hollywood, thinking that no one else was fighting the Germans except the Americans. Actually the war had been raging for over two years when America stepped in, and it was another year before they made much of an impact. But that contributor is mistaken to say the Americans were the people in the area - most of the holocaust happened in the east. There was little or nothing the Western Allies could have done to stop it. The best thing was to keep fighting to win the war as soon as possible - which they did.

Answer 4

Well, there is the Armenian Genocide, and the Rwandan (Burundi) Genocide, and the Bosnian Genocide. Oh, and the Khmer Rouge. All of those are relatively debatable in phrases of the definition of "genocide." That is in particular precise of the Armenian enjoy and the Turkish view (although there is no argument related to the good documented genocidal concentrating on of the Jews via the Nazis). I feel you must learn up on "genocide," now not simplest at the fifth web site under, but additionally in books written via critical students of the area. They realise the arguments -- each private, country wide, and global -- high-quality. Good success. Many international locations and cultures are nonetheless arguing approximately this.

Answer 5

Here's two reasons

1. I hear (alot of people say, but I don't know how true it is) that many people didn't know the full extent of what was going on. Some people said america was shocked when they started defeating the Germans and drove them out and started coming across these concentration camps. It is possible that Americans didn't know what all was going on.

2. You have to understand, after the hell of WWI the anti-war sentiment was VERY STRONG. Americans would NOT have tolerated the U.S. sticking it's nose in "Europe's buisness" untill WE PERSONALLY were attacked. I'm not saying it was right or wrong, I'm just saying that was the sentiment in America. We did NOT want to get involved in another world war. We wanted to stay neuteral if at ALL possible.

Answer 6

We still don't know exactly how much the American government actually knew about the holocaust, but do know their information wasn't terribly detailed. Also, for most of the war Germany was winning. We didn't stop it sooner because there was no way we possibly could have. We could not get into Germany. Once we were powerful enough to get into Germany, we did, and one of the first thingst the troops did was close down the concentration camps. That is when they learned what was really going on inside them, before, they really didn't know.

Answer 7

I don't know what delay you are referring to. As far as I can tell from what I've read they put a stop to it as quickly as they could once they learned of it. However until they actually liberated a concentration camp, the Allies really had no idea what was going on. This program was secret, and was occurring deep inside enemy territory. In fact the Nazi government kept it hidden from her own people for the most part.

If you're referring to delays in military actions, those had other reasons. Changing priorities, lack of fuel, etc.

Answer 8

Why are you making it sound like it was it the Americans job to stop the genocide? It was every body's responsibility, Americans just happened to be the first ones to get there.

Answer 9

Sad to say many times it takes a long time for people to get involved. We are trying to Stop the killing in Iraq but it is costing us many lives. And there is always a price to be paid when you try to stop somebody from doing what they want to do.

Answer 10

You may be referring to the US forces pausing before invading Germany in order to allow the Soviets to reach Berlin first. This had been agreed, I think at Yalta.