Why Did The Allies Lose Ww2

The Allies did not possess the means, nor the will to attempt a rescue of European Jews prior to 1943. They were losing the war on all fronts, and military intervention in Eastern Poland or the Soviet Union was simply unfeasible. The Allies regained the means to intervene by late-1943, but the will remained absent. To allocate valuable resources, such as bombers or paratroopers to conduct raids and rescue attempts, would distract from the overarching goal of victory as the Allies begun the final push into fortress Europe. Moreover, by the time the Allies were certain of the Holocaust in 1944, most of those who would perish in the genocide were already gone. However, there were non-military actions that could have been taken from the war’s onset, …show more content…
In September 1944, Sergeant Richard Paul, a reporter for the United States army’s Yank magazine, had his story on German atrocities, which he had written in conjunction with two reports from Auschwitz escapees, rejected on the basis that it was ‘too semitic’. Furthermore, he was informed that it should be rewritten so that it ‘did not deal principally with Jews.’ Stars and Stripes, the army’s other magazine, did not publish articles on German concentration camps until April 1945. Even then, however, the published articles never mentioned Jews specifically. The Allies usually chose to refer to the persecution of Jews in the context of other victims of German atrocities, or to not mention them at all. Even when the concentration camp Majdanek was captured in July 1944 by Soviet forces, and Western reporters were granted access to the camp, many could still not accept the reality of the extermination. The British Broadcasting Company accused its war correspondent with the Red Army, Alexander Werth, that his broadcast from Majdanek was a ‘Soviet propaganda stunt’ and informed him that it would not be transmitted. It was simply too unbelievable. A December 1945 Gallup Poll asked respondents, ‘Have you learned anything new from the evidence presented at the Nuremberg trials?’ 57 percent selected ‘Concentration camps’, and 30 percent selected ‘Annihilation of Jews’, further highlighting the public’s unawareness of the