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What could the Allied nations have done to prevent the Holocaust or to stop it once it began?

There has been much discussion regarding what the Allied nations could have done to prevent the Holocaust or to stop it once it began. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, one theory has included the bombing of the largest gas chambers of the Nazi regime -- Auschwitz -- as one of the possible efforts that would've saved lives. Clearly, Allied bombings had a significant impact on the eventual winning of World War II, but some theorize that had the gas chambers been actually bombed, the more than million people who lost their lives in these execution rooms may have been saved.

A fleet of American bombers dropped more than one thousand bombs on the Auschwitz factory areas, on August 20, 1944. A few weeks later, on September 13th, the U.S. bombers...
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