The Feelings of Indifference Towards Jews
To this day, there is much discussion on whether or not we should have bombed the Auschwitz Concentration camp. It was a controversial topic during the war and is still controversial and debated on.The Allies should have bombed Auschwitz; they had all the needed technology and skill needed in order to carry out the operation, and in the long run, more Jews would have been saved in the process than the ones that had been killed during the bombing.
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The Allies were more than capable of bombing Auschwitz they knew all the conditions that needed to be met, the time of day, and all the resources that were needed to pull it off successfully. The U.S. had obtained the necessary information …show more content…
The casualties of the Jewish prisoners came into play during the decision-making on whether to bomb Auschwitz or not, but the bigger question would have been the number of prisoners that would have been saved had we bombed Auschwitz (Bard). On an average day, twelve thousand Jews were shipped to Auschwitz alone and were exterminated just imagine ten schools blowing up every day and that would be about the number of Jews killed daily (Bard). Four out of five Jews were killed immediately upon arrival to the camp the gas chambers were working around the clock and interrupting this process could have saved thousands of lives (Berenbaum). “There was a pretty good chance we could have blasted those rail lines off the face of the Earth, which would have interrupted the flow of people to those death chambers, and we had a pretty good chance of knocking out those gas ovens,” (Bard). Whether a bombing attempt had been successful or not it would have still forced the Nazis to use some other means of transporting the Jews to the camp (“USA Rejects Bombing”). If the Allies had destroyed the gas chambers at Auschwitz it would have eliminated seventy-five percent of the Jewish casualties throughout the Holocaust, and without the extermination facilities, all deportations of Jews would have been halted or, at least, slowed …show more content…
Whether a bombing attempt had been successful or not it would have still forced the Nazis to use some other means of transporting the Jews to the camp (“USA Rejects Bombing”). Without the extermination facilities all deportations of Jews would have been halted or, at least, slowed which would have saved lives (Bard) (“Why Auschwitz was”). The Jews were no longer afraid of dying, especially by a bombing raid, because if an attack had not been attempt they knew more than likely they were going to die anyways (“Why Auschwitz was”). Just hearing bombs go off with a loud bang gave the prisoners a sense of hope to carry on and not give up (“Why Auschwitz was”). If the Allies had tried to attempt to bomb Auschwitz and failed it would have still boosted the morale of the inmates in Auschwitz, and would have let them know that they had not been forgotten (“What if the Allies”). If the attempt wasn’t even one-hundred percent successful, it would have still dealt enough damage to where the Nazis would have to take time to adjust their procedures and would buy more time for the prisoners to get out with their lives still
To this day, there is much discussion on whether or not we should have bombed the Auschwitz Concentration camp. It was a controversial topic during the war and is still controversial and debated on.The Allies should have bombed Auschwitz; they had all the needed technology and skill needed in order to carry out the operation, and in the long run, more Jews would have been saved in the process than the ones that had been killed during the bombing.
Requirements Needed
The Allies were more than capable of bombing Auschwitz they knew all the conditions that needed to be met, the time of day, and all the resources that were needed to pull it off successfully. The U.S. had obtained the necessary information …show more content…
The casualties of the Jewish prisoners came into play during the decision-making on whether to bomb Auschwitz or not, but the bigger question would have been the number of prisoners that would have been saved had we bombed Auschwitz (Bard). On an average day, twelve thousand Jews were shipped to Auschwitz alone and were exterminated just imagine ten schools blowing up every day and that would be about the number of Jews killed daily (Bard). Four out of five Jews were killed immediately upon arrival to the camp the gas chambers were working around the clock and interrupting this process could have saved thousands of lives (Berenbaum). “There was a pretty good chance we could have blasted those rail lines off the face of the Earth, which would have interrupted the flow of people to those death chambers, and we had a pretty good chance of knocking out those gas ovens,” (Bard). Whether a bombing attempt had been successful or not it would have still forced the Nazis to use some other means of transporting the Jews to the camp (“USA Rejects Bombing”). If the Allies had destroyed the gas chambers at Auschwitz it would have eliminated seventy-five percent of the Jewish casualties throughout the Holocaust, and without the extermination facilities, all deportations of Jews would have been halted or, at least, slowed …show more content…
Whether a bombing attempt had been successful or not it would have still forced the Nazis to use some other means of transporting the Jews to the camp (“USA Rejects Bombing”). Without the extermination facilities all deportations of Jews would have been halted or, at least, slowed which would have saved lives (Bard) (“Why Auschwitz was”). The Jews were no longer afraid of dying, especially by a bombing raid, because if an attack had not been attempt they knew more than likely they were going to die anyways (“Why Auschwitz was”). Just hearing bombs go off with a loud bang gave the prisoners a sense of hope to carry on and not give up (“Why Auschwitz was”). If the Allies had tried to attempt to bomb Auschwitz and failed it would have still boosted the morale of the inmates in Auschwitz, and would have let them know that they had not been forgotten (“What if the Allies”). If the attempt wasn’t even one-hundred percent successful, it would have still dealt enough damage to where the Nazis would have to take time to adjust their procedures and would buy more time for the prisoners to get out with their lives still