I'll say this from the start. Do you have any Unbiased sources?
I did not say that the Allies knew Nothing. We did know that they were herded into camps, we knew that they were being mistreated. The Allies did Not Know the extent of the Holocaust Until we located the camps.
Your little library above actually proposes that we should have disregarded the lives of those in the camps and bombed them. Actually they said we should have bombed the Gas Chambers and railways that supplied them. They did not have anything but dumb bombs at the time so we could have just carpet bombed the entire camp.
The only way to have done anything about the Holocaust was to get to defeat the Germans and get to the camps. That is what we did, we met a little resistance along the way...
I say you are still incorrect in that you think that the Allies knew the extent of the horrors that were occurring and then ignored it.
I have not claimed that they knew the complete extent and then ignored it. Although, it should be noted that the wide spread antisemitism in various countries like the U.S., Canada, Britain and Russia certainly didn't help matters and, at times, various parts of the allied governments did, in fact, try and suppress or delay the dissemination of information regarding the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis.
This is what I said: "They may not have known about everything but as early as 1940/41 information was getting out to the allies.
Certainly by 1942 they had been informed of a campaign of extermination being conducted by the Germans against the Jews."
Is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unbiased enough for you? If not, you could try reading a history book or two.
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In August 1942, the State Department received a report sent by Gerhart Riegner, the Geneva-based representative of the World Jewish Congress (WJC). The report revealed that the Germans were implementing a policy to physically annihilate the Jews of Europe. Department officials declined to pass on the report to its intended recipient, American Jewish leader
Stephen Wise, who was President of the World Jewish Congress.
Despite the State Department's delay in publicizing the mass murder, that same month Wise received the report via British channels. He sought permission from the State Department to make its contents public. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles asked Wise not to publicize the information until the State Department confirmed it. Wise agreed and after three months the State Department notified him that its sources had confirmation.
On November 24, 1942, Wise held a press conference to announce that Nazi Germany was implementing a policy to annihilate the European Jews. A few weeks later, on December 17, the United States, Great Britain, and ten other Allied governments issued a declaration denouncing Nazi Germany's intention to murder the Jews of Europe. The declaration warned Nazi Germany that it would be held responsible for these crimes."
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005182
So, in 1942 the allies knew that the Nazi plan was to exterminate all Jews. At that point did they really have to know about the ovens?
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