Did the Allies Do Enough to Stop the

Holocaust?

Organizing and Presenting Evidence

NO

Did the Allies do enough?

Did the Allies do ANYTHING?

Overview of Arguments

“Smoking Gun Argument”: The Allies Had Evidence of the Death Camps.

“We Can Do It Argument”: The Allies Had the Capability to Bomb the Camps.

“Where was Man? Argument”: There was a Moral Duty to do Something.

ARGUMENT 1

“Smoking Gun Argument”:

The Allies Had Evidence of the Death Camps

Author Konnilyn Feig...contends that since the photos were available to the American military, there can be no doubt that [America] "knew" about Hitler's "death camps." Feig says that the American explanation that it had inadequate information was now proven to be "a clear lie."

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v05/v05p215_Gleason.html

“Smoking Gun Argument”: The Allies Had Evidence of the Death Camps

Rudolf  Vrba  and  Alfred  Weltzer  both  escaped  from  Auschwitz  in  1944  in  which  they  “…dictated  32  pages  of  informa:on  to  horrified  Jewish  officials  in  Žilina,  Slovakia—in  which  they  offered  extensive  detail  about  the  mass  murder  taking  place  inside  Auschwitz,  including  a  map  and  descrip;on  of  the  layout  of  the  camp  and  the  use  of  gas  chambers”

 

1944 became known as the “Vrba-Wetzler Report”hIp://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-‐from-‐auschwitz/vrbas-‐and-‐wetzlers-‐escape/31/

“Smoking Gun Argument”: The Allies Had Evidence of the Death Camps

Argument 2:“We Can Do It Argument”:

The Allies Had the Capability to Bomb the Camps

“We Can Do It Argument”: The Allies Had the Capability to Bomb the Camps

...May 1944 the U.S. Army Air Forces had the capability to strike Auschwitz at will....

- Encyclopedia Britannia Blog

Allies Bombed IG FARBEN

“We Can Do It Argument”: The Allies Had the Capability to Bomb the Camps

On August 20, 1944, a squadron of 127 U.S. bombers, accompanied by 100 Mustangs ...struck oil factories less than five miles from the gas chambers. Auschwitz prisoner Elie Wiesel, age 16, witnessed the attack ....

http://wymaninstitute.org/special-reports/WymanAuschwitzReport2012.pdf

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Argument 3: “Where was Man? Argument”: There was a Moral Duty to do Something

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Yad Vashem entrance to honor the Righteous Among the Nations in Jerusalem.

“Where was Man? Argument”: There was a Moral Duty to do Something

David Wyman (author of numerous books on the Holocaust) asked: "How could it be that the governments of the two great Western democracies knew that a place existed where 2,000 helpless human beings could be killed every 30 minutes, knew that such killings actually did occur over and over again, and yet did not feel driven to search for some way to wipe such a scourge from the earth?"

http://www.wymaninstitute.org/

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“Where was Man? Argument”: There was a Moral Duty to do Something

Righteous Among the Nations," or "Righteous Gentiles," refers to those non-Jews who aided Jews during the Holocaust. There were "Righteous Among the Nations" in every country overrun or allied with the Nazis, and their deeds often led to the rescue of Jewish lives. Yad Vashem, the Israeli national remembrance authority for the Holocaust, bestows special honors upon these individuals. To date, after carefully evaluating each case, Yad Vashem has recognized approximately 10,000 "Righteous Gentiles" ...http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394663

THEY DID SOMETHING... BUT THE ALLIES DID NOTHING????

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394663http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394663

Therefore... the Allies Did NOT DO ENOUGH to Stop the

Holocaust

Review of Arguments

“Smoking Gun Argument”: The Allies Had Evidence of the Death Camps

“We Can Do It Argument”: The Allies Had the Capability to Bomb the Camps

“Where was Man? Argument”: There was a Moral Duty to do Something?

“Whoever saves one life save the world entire”.~Talmud and “Schindler’s List”

Final Thought