How Did The United States Prevent The Holocaust?

The Holocaust was a tragic event during World War II that Nazi Germany created that involved the persecution and killing of over 5 million Jews. Hitler, the chancellor of Germany at the time, believed that the Jews were responsible for Germany’s loss during World War I. After the Holocaust had started, you’d think that the other countries would intervene pretty fast. Unfortunately, they didn’t realize what was happening until almost a year after it had begun. What were the Allies' reactions and was there anything they could have done to stop it? Initially, when the Allies found out what the Germans were doing with the Jews, there was limited awareness of what was truly happening in the Nazi-occupied territories due to the lack of ability to gain information about
Soon after this, the US Government learned about the systematic killing of Jews almost as soon as it began in the Soviet Union in 1941. In late November 1942, just weeks after American and British troops began to battle the Germans and their allies in North Africa, newspapers reported that two million Jews had already been murdered as part of the Nazi regime’s annihilation plan. In response, the United States and eleven other Allied countries issued a stern declaration vowing to punish the perpetrators of this “bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination.” This would end up leading to the Allies playing a key role in the liberation of concentration camps. Although the United States knew about the persecution of the Jews, the liberation of the camps unfortunately came later in the war. This was mainly because the liberation of the camps wasn’t a primary task that needed to be completed at the time. Along with this, the Allies had no idea of the true atrocities the camps held until they witnessed them