what did the US do to stop the holocaust during WWII?

Answer 1

Ignored it, the same as everyone else.

Not much was known about what was going on, of what was known not much was believed.

The US rejected Jewish refugees coming from Germany on more than one occasion, even knowing something was going on. Luckily Canada was a bit more accepting.

Jews were considered higher up than Asians, but still lower than Anglo-Saxons, so it was pretty easy to ignore what was happening,

Answer 2

i guess leaving Germany in a pile of rubble and winning the war wasn't good enough?

I think maybe you're asking, why didn't we jump into the war sooner???

Attacking continental Europe and winning earlier than June 1944 was not possible. Attacking sooner would've meant tactical defeats and prolonged the war at least another year. The US strategy of building up an overwhelming force was the strategy in WWII.

In 1943, the US & western allies were landing in Sicily and making their way up the boot of Italy. Building up the force that attacked the Atlantic Wall required a June 1944 attack date.

Several setbacks in 1944 also prolonged the war, inluding the little gamble known as the Battle of the Bulge.

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 3

What could they have done? It was an internal German matter. And as the US was at war with Germany there is not much more they could have done.