Another reason why it was not a priority for the United States was because the State Department delayed publicizing the reports of genocide. In 1942, the government received a cable that showed the Nazi plans for the extermination of Jews.
The United States did not respond quickly to the rescue of victims in the Holocaust. In 1943, representatives from the United States and Britain met in Bermuda to find a way to solve this problem. There were no proposals that came about during the conference. Also during this time, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was informed of the mass murder in the Warsaw ghetto. The United States did not take any action until 1944. This happened when Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board. By the time the War Refugee Board was finally established, most of the Jewish people in the Holocaust were dead.
Around the spring of 1944, the Allies found out about the killings of Jews using poison gas at Auschwitz. Some Jewish leaders spoke unsuccessfully with the government in an attempt to get the United States to bomb the gas chambers and railroad tracks going to the camp. State officials argued that United States aircraft did not have the capacity to perfect these actions. Accuracy was a very big problem. This led to D-Day. On June 6, 1944 the Allies landed at Normandy. This started their invasion of Nazi Europe.
The picture does not have to do much with my blog entry. When I went to Europe in 2007, I had a chance to go to the Anne Frank House. We got to walk throughout the house. The attic was definitely a chilling experience. Anne Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. She earned fame worldwide quickly after the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
SITES: (CREDITS) : http://www.hello-newman.com/Israel/holocaust.html
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