Why didn't the united states stop the holocaust?

Answer 1

The United States did not ignore the Holocaust. The world didn't really know that the Holocaust was occurring. That's the way it works with a regime. Information doesn't get in or out. The rest of the world simply knew that Nazi Germany was fighting other nations. When tales of the Holocaust did get out, it sounded so horrifying that people didn't believe it could be possible. America did not ignore the War either. We were in it far before GI's ever shipped out. We gave a great deal of financial support to the Allies, which is one of the reasons Pearl Harbor occurred. But without knowledge of the Holocaust, America thought it was just another European war. We thought it was just a turf war, and as such was none of our business. That's why America stayed out of it. But we didn't ignore it. Read about the Holocaust. It was a massive event. Not knowing about it today is ignoring it. You need to delve deeper than simply asking a question to people you don't even know over the internet.

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By mid 1942 the US and British governments were well informed about they Holocaust. In practice, there was very little that they could do in the short term.

From about November 1942 on the Holocaust was reported in the media and people even set up bodies to try to lessen the toll, but for some reason all this has been forgotten.

Answer 2

The Allies had in fact quite a lot of information about the Holocaust - in other words, much more than rumours, and from late 1942 on they even released information to the media about it. However, it is far from clear what the Allies could have done about it at that stage.

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Answer 3

A lot people did not realize what was going on in the camps on account of this was after the war a group of US soldiers took the mayor of a town right out side of a concentration camp and showed them the atrocities that occurred there and the next day the mayor and his wife were found hanging in their home

Answer 4

The leaders of the Allied Countries (including the US) did not see the protection of Europe's Jews and other minorities to be worth "wasting" their times and ordinance. Some people have chalked this up to the high prevalence of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Ziganism (hatred of Romani/Gypsies), while others have cited that military targets were more pressing to protect Allied soldiers. Another reason is that military bombing capabilities (which is the way that most people propose that the US or UK could have averted the Holocaust was not as precise in the 1940s as it is today. If the camps had been targeted, all of the Jews there would have been killed since it would be very easy to have hit the barracks for the "prisoners" instead of the crematoria or gas chambers. Similarly railroads were too small of a target for aerial bombardment at that time, which is why most railroads that were destroyed were destroyed by local resistance groups on the ground as opposed to Allied airpower.