Relevant_Departure40 t1_iybpq4f wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:07 AM

Reply to comment by rosesandpiglets in Antiwar Activists Who Flee Russia Find Detention, Not Freedom, in the U.S. by ThisIsNotCorn

Admittedly a large population of the German refugees were Jewish, and iirc, prior to the Allies liberating Auschwitz, most of America didn't know about the death camps. Hitler probably (correctly) assumed that if he openly said he was committing genocide, it would have gone much worse for him. We didn't really know what he was doing until it was far too late

delinquentfatcat t1_iyc7xzq wrote on November 30, 2022 at 8:53 AM

By mid-1944, the Allies knew about the concentration camps and pleas were made to bomb Auschwitz to reduce its killing capacity. However, this never happened due to wartime priorities and a lack of political will:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Why-wasnt-Auschwitz-bombed-717594