>>The latent anti-Semitism in America prevented the United States from bombing the crematorium or railroad at Auschwitz, Adler said
“If they would have bombed just the railroad tracks, over 1 million innocent lives would have been saved. As you can see, there is enough blame to go around,” Adler said.<<
___________________________________________________________
What an ass! Bomb the railroad tracks. Right. From 25,000 feet with a dumb bomb from a B-17 or a B-24. And then hit a target 4.5 feet wide.
First, this wasn't "RACISM!!" it was TECHNOLOGY. The smart bombs this guy is looking for were not deployed in Europe. The handful the USA had made during the war were deployed in destroying the Burma-Thailand Railroad.
Second, most GERMANS didn't know the Holocaust was going on so little intel was gleaned by spies. And even when solid proof made its way to the West no one believed it before the end of the war. No one believed that this could really happen. Eisenhower thought Patton was grossly exaggerating when Patton first told Ike about one of the camps. When Ike saw it for himself his reaction was nothing less than rage. A rage that cost 250,000 Germans their lives after the war.
But I guess Adler ran out of Nazis to blame for the Holocaust so now he wants to blame the 'latent racism' of the United States that sacrificed four million dead fighting fascism.
I'm sick of morons attacking the one country that they always expect to defend civilization. The USA.
I'm sorry for what happened to Adler, but America had nothing to do with it.
I might add that his crap is an insult to the countless American and Allied Jews who died fighting Naziism during the war.
He pisses on their sacrifice with this crap.
Book makes some very interesting points, but - germane to this thread - suggests that FDR wasn't determined to stop the Holocaust because he was already in hot water over our entry into WWII.
FDR did a lot to get the US into war with Germany, including harassing U-boats while we were not at war with Germany, and he tried to get opponents of American participation in WWII voted out of office after Pearl Harbor - the trouble being, before Pearl Harbor 80% of Americans opposed entry into WWII. So if your congressman agreed with you before Pearl Harbor, and if he agreed with you after Pearl Harbor, why would you want to vote against him? You didn't.
So FDR, according to Flemming, was afraid that if he made a big deal about the treatment of Jews there would be a backlash of "So that's why he was so eager to get us into WWII! Jews!"
With one thing and another, it is really quite a thought-provoking book.