Allied Response to The Holocaust

Allied Response to The Holocaust

Actions Speak Louder than Words: Allied Response to the Holocaust



The extermination of Jewish people during World War II was a horrific and merciless event that was effectively stopped by the Allies. Once the Allies became aware of the Holocaust, they immediately took action to end it. There have been countless suggestions of what the Allies could have done to prevent the Holocaust, however those would not have been as effective as the solution the Allies had put in place. Despite arguments that the Allies did not make a strong attempt to saving the Jews, by putting all their resources into the complete defeat of Nazi Germany, they were essentially doing all they could.

The Allies became aware of the Holocaust in 1942 due to numerous ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ..."Yet bombing a concentration camp filled with innocent, unjustly imprisoned civilians also posed a moral dilemma for the Allies. To be willing to sacrifice innocent civilians, one would have had to perceive accurately conditions in the camp and to presume that interrupting the killing process would be worth the loss of life in Allied bombings. In short, one would have had to know that those in the camps were about to die. Such information was not available until the spring of 1944." (Berenbaum).



As mentioned above, without full knowledge of what was going on in the concentration camps until 1944, bombing the camps did not seem like a well thought out idea. Even if the camps were to have been bombed, the Nazis could have quickly rebuilt them and would have continued to murder the Jews. Additionally, bombing the railway networks to the camps would have been an even weaker attempt at ending the Holocaust as those networks could be rebuilt even quicker than the camps could have (Izrael). Also, "bombing Auschwitz might [have provoked] even more vindictive German action" and have caused the Holocaust to have been dragged out for longer, with more lives lost (Berenbaum). In addition, some people may have been led to believe that the American's were sided with the Nazis if they were to have killed more Jews in the prospective bombings (Vanden Heuvel). Put differently, "those who defame America

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