2007-05-21 15:49:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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.
2007-05-21 16:42:55 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were kind of busy fighting a war.
The high command were aware of at least the existence of the camps, if not the specifics of what were done there, but there was little they could do. Some criticize the decision not to bomb the transport lines that were used to ship the prisoners. The commanders elected not to because there was no strategic value to such actions. It's easy to second-guess in hindsight. They did the best thing they could do--fight the enemy and reach the camps as soon as they could.
2007-05-21 23:00:06 · answer #2 · answered by Peter D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until the camps were liberated, there was very little the Allies could do, and the Russians didn't care.
What could the Allies have done? If they'd bombed the camps, they'd have killed many that managed to survive, and would have killed more prisoners than guards.
Doc Hudson
2007-05-21 23:06:13 · answer #3 · answered by Doc Hudson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had to wait until they reached them before they could liberate them, they were a long way behind enemy lines, and the German's were putting up their darnedest to beat the allies.
The camps were liberated by the British, American and Soviets depending where they were.
2007-05-21 23:52:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they were to busy trying to defeat the German Army to get to the camps in the first place
2007-05-21 22:53:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. They knew about them, but did nothing about them. They even had photographs of railroads, and the camps themselves. I suppose when you get down to it, they just didn't care about Jewish lives.
2007-05-22 13:16:32 · answer #6 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An identical question was answered a few weeks ago. Search for it.
2007-05-21 22:58:22 · answer #7 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like what?
2007-05-22 00:41:00 · answer #8 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't discover them until the end of the war...
2007-05-21 22:55:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋