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The Holocaust could have been stopped if the US and other countries stepped in from the beginning with the knowledge that they had of the mass murders. Even the press had knowledge of the massacre of the Jews in Europe. For example the World Jewish Congress sent a world known rabbi Stephen Wise a telegram concerning the mass murders, and since the US was at war, all telegrams had to go through the government at the time. When it reached the state department, they held on to it the telegram for three months before handing it over to the Rabbi. The US should have stepped in way sooner than they did. For these reasons the Holocaust could have been stopped before over six million innocent Jews and over six million innocent non-Jewish victims were forever lost to the furnaces of the Nazis.

AnswerWhat form would effective 'stepping in' have taken? AnswerFrom a historical perspective, once WW2 began, there was virtually nothing that any country except Germany could have done to stop the Holocaust. At best, certain actions by the Allies (and the Holy See) could have reduced the number of people murdered, but the practical realities of the Holocaust are such that only the Germans themselves could have actually halted it. Given the level of control that the Nazi party had on the German nation, there is no realistic scenario where a revolt or protest or anything similar could have stopped it. At best, the only real hope to have stopped the Holocaust would have been a successful coup by the German Army against Hitler (there were several attempts, none successful), as this would have brought the war to an immediate end.

Any chance to actually stop the Holocaust would have had to involve the removal from power of Adolf Hitler prior to WW2. There is no real basis for speculation on how that might have happened, or if anyone would have thought it was a worthwhile goal achievable by realistic efforts.

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