Petty politics in this country and in England decided not to intervene, not to bomb Auschwitz or the rail lines leading there. Petty politics, documented in the book referred to in #23. Is this what is being defended above?
Decided not to intervene? What exactly do you call our efforts in WWII? I guess we could have sent Hitler a sternly worded letter, but until his military was destroyed, I don't think he would have been inclined to listen.
What would bombing Auschwitz or the rail lines leading there have accomplished? Had we bombed the facility itself, with the "precision munitions" available at the time, we would have just been directly responsible for the deaths of the Jews imprisoned there. Cut rail lines would have been repaired in a day, or two - the nazis were quite adept at that. And even if we had destroyed that particular camp the nazis would have simply gone back to the simple expedient of mass shootings and mass graves.
Hitler wanted the Jews of Europe exterminated, by whatever means, and it only stopped when the Allies broke the back of the nazis. Unfortunately for the Jews and other victims of the nazis, it took us a few years to accomplish.
They did bomb a camp. There were many prisoners who were killed and it wasn’t ever tried again because there was problems with distance AND accuracy.