JERUSALEM"” President George W. Bush, on an emotional tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial, stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday and told his secretary of state that the U.S. should have bombed the death camp to stop the extermination of Jews there, the memorial's chairman said.
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Yup. Insane that there were reports in the NY Times about the work and death camps in the early 1940's, yet nobody did much to oppose them. Even more insane that some people believe it was all staged.
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That's a nice thing to say during a visit to Israel, but it really doesn't mean **** now, does it?
Auschwitz was in Poland, for crying out loud. If anyone was going to have to bomb it, it was the Soviets. We were right to focus our strategic bombing campaigns on strategic targets, utterly destroying Nazi Germany's industrial capabilities.
I'm not an aerial bombardment expert, but I have to imagine that flying round trip from England to Poland would be a suicide mission in a B-17 or B-24. Maybe the 29 could do it, but they were all in the Pacific, and for good reason.
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I hear you and believe it was a sympathetic comment only.
Bombing an internmentcamp with folks in it? Does that seem right? If they had the label of "extermination camps " then I could see military action occuring if they held US and Allied Soldiers.
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No, the railroad was the target. Bombingsmall targets like that is difficult, but a successful missionwould've slowed the logistical operationsdown a bit. Of course, if I were Hitler, I'd panic because I'd know that the Allies know about the death camps. He might'vestarted increasing the rate of extermination.
But,Hitler was short of manpower and oil supplies by 1944. With the railroads bombed, and with fuel and replacement partsinshort supply, it's unlikely the Germans could've even dreamed of trucking in half as many prisoners as theycould move by rail. It could've lessened the murder in the end, but no one can really say.
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Bombing an internmentcamp with folks in it? Does that seem right? If they had the label of "extermination camps " then I could see military action occuring if they held US and Allied Soldiers.
The US did go out of their way to sink ***anese ships carrying allied POWs, reason being was that the POWs were heading for a fate as bad as or even worse than the Jews in the death camps.
On the other hand, using the term 'interment camp' describes something no different than what the US did to ***anese-American and German-Americans (yes a lot of them got tossed into camps too) during the war.
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"The US did go out of their way to sink ***anese ships carrying allied POWs, reason being was that the POWs were heading for a fate as bad as or even worse than the Jews in the death camps."
Prove that statement. Some ***anese ships carrying US and Allied POWs were sunk. The US military did not go out of their way to sink POW carrying ships. They just sank ships.
WWII was not about "saving" any ethnic group. Let me remind folks out there thatother ethnic groups were hunted and exterminated by Hitler: Slavsand Gypsies to name a couple. WWII in Europe was aboutwresting control ofEurope and a large portion of the Soviet Union from German troops. In war some things are either over looked or written off-as it should be. Do not blame US war time leaders for the Holacaust-blame Hitler and his minions.
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Upon viewing an aerial shot of Auschwitz, taken during the war by U.S. forces, Bush called the ruling not to bomb it "complex." He then called over Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's decision, clearly pondering the options before rendering an opinion of his own, Shalev told the Associated Press.
"We should have bombed it," Bush said, according to Shalev.
...the statement in itself does sound stupid but the article continues and explanation develops.
Bush Says U.S. Should Have Bombed WWII Death Camp
