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Originally Posted by Neon Knight
if the allies had bombed aschwitz then all the nazis involved in the industrial extermination process would have got a clear message from the allies: "we KNOW what you are doing and when it's all over you will be accountable for this"
On the contrary, the fact that no military action was ever taken against any extermination camp made many nazis think that the allies ignore what was going on. Many people working in death camps felt somehow safe, far away from war front, just waiting for the end of the war. they believed that dismatelling the camp a few weeks before the allies arrival would be enough to hide everything.
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Wouldn't it have just been easier to say directly to them, instead of killing the innocents by bombings, "we KNOW what you are doing and when it's all over you will be accountable for this? Saying it directly is not ambiguous and leaves no wiggle room for the Germans to say, "Hey, look, even the Brits and the Amis want the Jews dead, they're bombing them for us."
I just fail to see how intentionly bombing the crap out of a non-military target is going to help in any way to shorten the war or help camp morale. So we fly in and kill and maim a large number of prisoners? That's going to make them real happy with us. "Moisha wasn't gassed, he was killed by American bombs only three months before the war ended. He wasn't at the cremetoria, he was working in shop 2 miles away."
Yes, other nation's endured bombing of non-combatants, but I am quite certain that the inhabitants of the camps knew what the aircraft that flew over night and day were doing and it that wasn't beneficial to their tormentors.
Why heap misery on a group that had already endured so much?