“Similar to why Churchill didn’t bomb the death camp railroads.”
I don’t know that one. I had assumed it wasn’t done for any number of reasons.
A rail line can quickly be rebuilt. Like overnight. This isn’t high technology.
Bombs in that era weren’t all that accurate and you were likely to hit the camps if you bombed near them. That’s why you dropped a lot of bombs in order to hit your primary.
Bombers were assigned to targets that would hasten the end of the war. Hitting the railways to the death camps would have been a feel good exercise that accomplished little.
Anyway I’ll be curious to learn the Churchill story.
I don’t think the effect of the bombing of railroads would have been as trivial as you make it out to be, especially since the bombing of Germany was incessant and could be repeated at will. In addition, steel was precious to Germany and their industrial infrastructure was being smashed, so even repairs would have been seriously problematic.
As for Churchill, what I read was that much of the death camp information was confirmed through coded messages decrypted by ENIGMA. So if they acted on it, the fear was Germany would respond by shifting to another code system entirely. Not letting on that ENIGMA existed through Allied actions was huge part of using it effectively.