Re: Concentration camps
Edward Behrendt (holcaust@RIO.COM)
Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:41:13 -0800
That's not an easy question to answer. It is very controversial and
political. In my opinion, and I am a Holocaust survivor who was there, if
the world had been more aware and caring, all of WW II could have been
stopped long before it started. At the time, prior to 1939, most of the
world including the U.S., either
did not want to believe what was actually happening in Germany or they did
not want to be involved.
The United States was in a very conservative and isolationist type of mood
at the time, and Europe, to them, was so far away. Why become involved,
was the cry. While President Roosevelt did some things unofficially, it was
not until Pearl Harbor that the U.S. suddenly became officially involved.
As for the concentration camps and what could or could not have been done,
that too is still debated to this day. I believe, that the very least that
could have been done was to bomb the rail lines going to the camps, and all
related installations. There are people who say that if we had done that,
we might also have hit too many civilians.
Edward J. Behrendt
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