Yes, we all know that the Jews are being killed. But it’s another thing altogether for GIs from Kenosha, Jacksonville and Sacramento to walk through Buchenwald and see for themselves exactly what that means. That hasn’t happened. Yet.
And by the way, those guys never walked through the Gulag. It’s the only reason the left has been able to keep its love of communism from being as loathed as the Nazis.
Same point I was making. I’ve just reached the liberation of the camps in Germany in “The Guns at Last Light.”
The regiment that stumbled across Dachau originated in the Colorado National Guard. The battalion commander that found the camp was Felix Sparks of Colorado and I was fortunate enough to hear him speak about it. All of the troops were shocked by what they found, although he forcefully denied the persistent rumors that his troops lost discipline and began killing guards. Not that they didn't deserve it.
That said, the people high in the Roosevelt administration with access to the Times and even better information being supplied by Jewish groups should have done much more to get Jews out of occupied Europe. We've had several discussions in these threads about people claiming to be helpful and attending meetings and conferences who were in fact decidedly unhelpful.
Add to that the effect on leftist Jews had Stalin not died at the outset of the Doctor's Plot.