Why did the US not get involved in stopping the holacaust?

Answer 1

Hitler was a European problem. Just look at the flack we are taking for "going it alone", "messing in other nations' affairs", "bullying little countries", etc. today. If the US had tried to disarm Germany before 1939, we would probably have had to fight the French and British too!

AnswerThe above answer is true to a point. Canada didn't even want to get into that war. Then Propaganda started about the concentration camps and the genocide of Jews and still the world thought this so horrendous it had to be a lie that they ignored it for a couple of more years. The U.S. did take part in ending Hitlers reign along with other countries helping out as well.

the reason the Americans did not want to stop Hitler is because American Busineses were making Money they supported Hitler from 1924 and prescott Bush Rockefeller and FDR loaned the Nazis Millions to help the NAZI party win the 1933 elections this link explains some of it

http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html

Answer 2

well we didnt stop the Holocaust because we didnt know about it until after WWII. so we couldn't help any of the people that were alive and save the others from being killed.

The U.S. government was informed several times about the holocaust from December 1941 on. Like other Allied governments it didn't want to know. Also, it is not at all clear what the US could have done in practical terms to stop the Holocaust. Condemnation by Congress and the US President would not have had any effect ... Germany was a very formidable military power at the time.

After WWI the US adopted a policy of isolationism to prevent from the other countries' conflict. They did not want to get involved because economically and politically, they wanted to maintain the policy of isolationism.

By early 1943, the Allied governments were well aware that the mass murder of the Jews (and others) were occurring in facilities primarily in Poland. There was considerable discussion on the Anglo-American side about possible intervention aimed at stopping or disrupting this extermination. However, a combination of lack of practical options (bombing the camps or rail-lines was not realistically achievable), a reluctance to accept the magnitude of the problem, and a significant resistance from military planners on using critical war resources on non-military missions resulted in a decision to do nothing.

Unfortunately, I have never seen a significantly decent explanation as to why one serious avenue for reducing the death toll was never taken: to broadcast to the world what was going on. A great deal of the Nazis ability to round up and send to extermination camps Jews from the far-flung reaches of Europe was that Jews simply couldn't imaging they were being shipped off to die. This idea simply wasn't in people's range of possibilities. While many would have dismissed the concept as Allied propaganda, many others would not have, and at least considered the idea as a possibility. This would likely have resulted in a much higher level of resistance (by both the Jews and local authorities) to the roundups, which in turn would have slowed the shipment of people to their deaths.

Answer 3

The question seems to wonder why the United States did not partake in the Holocaust during WWII which is a rather absurd question. It seems that you're asking if the United States could have done more to prevent the horrors of the Holocaust. The pure and simple answer is that the United States made major contributions to ending the Holocaust including being a major participant in defeating Nazi Germany and actually liberating prisoners from prison camps. However, historians do debate if the United States could have done more. Typically, historians who argue that the United States did enough argue that any resources devoted by the US to stop the Holocaust ultimately diverts resources away from actually defeating Hitler. Historians who argue that the United States could have done more typically argue that the United States knew about the Holocaust and could have done something to slow the Germans down. The one problem with this is that the best method of stopping the Holocaust is to get the victims out of German custody and that is impractical without physically invading the continent.

Answer 4

When the allied nations of WW 2 fought against Hitler, no nation payed much attention to the holocaust. The U.S., Britain, and U.S.S.R.(Russia) were the biggest nations responsible for stoping the holocaust, so the U.S. did help stop the holocaust. When they came to a concentration camp, they liberated it and took care of the surviving prisoners. Russia was responsible for liberating Auswistch(bigest camp) and most of the camps in there own country and Poland. Britain was responsible for liberating most of the camps in Holland and France. The U.S. were responsible for liberating most of the camps in Czechoslavakia, Austria, and France. So the U.S. did get involved as much as the other allied countries.

Answer 5

The major reason why the U.S. failed to help during the holocaust was because the Great Depression was still going on all over the world at the begining and the leaders had other things to worry about than what was going on in Europe. Once the full scope of the Holocaust was known people still did not want to help because they felt that if Jews came over from Europe they would take jobs away from Americans that really needed them.

Answer 6

The American government was aware of the growing level of anti-Jewish activity in Germany and Austria prior to World War 2, but viewed it as an internal German matter. In the late 1930s, before the war, Germany challenged the world to find a place to relocate several million Jews. The Roosevelt administration cabinet actually debated the benefits and costs of accepting so many people, but the US was in its 9th year of the Great Depression and did not have the financial resources to deal with huge numbers of new immigrants. The government was still dealing with the massive cost and disruption of the dust bowl as well as the costs of urban unemployment.

The mass executions that formed the major destruction of the Holocaust began after 1941. The United States mobilized a 12-million strong military and sent (by the end of 1944) 45 divisions into Western Europe. Jewish survivors of the camps brought very accurate information to the western allies in 1943 - 45 and aerial surveillance confirmed the existence of massive death camps, though the extent of the killing was not fully understood. War planners received requests to bomb the death camps but believed that the bombings would kill thousands of innocent detainees. They simply did not believe that all of the detainees were destined for murder, whether by bombing or gas chambers.

In the end, about 200,000 Americans died ending the Nazi regime and thus ending the Holocaust.

Answer 7

not having proper information before the event took place

Answer 8

Had the US tried to stop the Holocaust it would have found itself unable to because the Holocaust occurred on a different continent in a country that the US was at war with.