History Questions ( Archived) (17)

I have been trying to find this answer all summer and I have not found one that makes sense. I have only found vague statements and ambiguity. I was taking a history class and I was reading books on WW2. US had the ability to bomb the railroad tracks to stop the trains from going into concentration camps. Why didn't we do that? What happened? Every possibility I came up with, fell short. The trains moved at night - Ok...bomb the tracks in the daytime when you can see the target and you wouldn't do it at night cause you don't want to blow up the trains carrying people, but you could destroy the tracks to stop the train. That thought went circular...back to starting point. Germans fled Germany, went to Canada and the US...and they didn't just mention it to somebody? It's not like gossip is a new concept! Through the course of time, people talk. If US didn't hear it on the radio, ask your neighbor! Again, circular thought - How is it we couldn't have known?

Post WW2, I did not know until Mel Gibson spouted off in a bar that he was raised believing The Holocaust did not exist. PEOPLE THINK THAT??? I researched it a little bit, but it did not make sense then or the other day with the Iranian guy here in the US at Columbia University who said the same thing. Maybe I am too analytical but the concentration camps exist and that is proof in and of itself. What about the material things buried? The hiding places in people's homes? On Oprah, she took a tour through Auschwitz where there were rooms full of hair and shoes. So there is proof it happened. Physical proof - not just assumption. How do people deny and/or misplace 6 million people in theory? How is it Holocaust did not happen or people are denying it happened?

For all you scholars out there, thank you for any input! This has perplexed me all summer long!

The holocaust did happen, why it wasn't stopped nobody can be sure,





The US couldn't bomb the trains or tracks day or night, they tried but just like thier modern day pilots they hit the wrong target and killed thier allies so thats one reason.
I lost a few friend during Desert Storm through it and they gave the pilots medals for doing it

Nobody ever learns from history...... the same mistakes keep happening

If they blew up the tracks , the people would have been gassed or lined up and shot.
A lot of American service men did not know about the camps till the end of the war and the ones who seen it first hand.
I like Mel but he is an a**hole if he thinks it did not happen.

Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.



.........and, I have no idea why it would be a sensitive topic.....???


.........and the closing thought.... "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"

I don't believe I was stirring up anything in a negative fashion like Mystical believes I am. I feel it would be foolish not to ask - like one of you said, if we don't realize, think and ask, history will repeat itself. Nobody wants that.

Mel Gibson - He was an idiot in a bar spouting off. I lost a lot of respect for him over his antisemitic remarks. It was on CNN or his biography on IMDB.com that his father raised him and his siblings as Catholics who denied the Holocaust period - never happened. I didn't know until that moment that it was ever denied! I mean I freak when I lose my keys. I cannot imagine losing 6 million people - OOPS - never happened! Wikipedia was extremely vague, as was History Channel.

Troops did not know. That is scary in and of itself in that a country got away with it - That level of sneaky is truly frightening and one can only hope that this page of history NEVER repeats itself!

Trish..great Google - Thank you!

Hitting the wrong target - Ok...that makes sense. Attempts were made, just unsuccessfully. Now I am getting somewhere! US is so intrusive - in everybody's country - it just seemed so unlike us to ignore the situation in Europe during the war. Appeared out of character.

I have seen the Holocaust museum in Israel. I saw it when I was 11 years of old and that really shocked me. Once you have seen it or one of the concentration camps you know that the Holocaust did exist.