Historical Study Assessment
To what extent could the allies have responded to the persecution and extermination of the Jews during WWII?
With every event there is always two sides and in this case there are multiple point of views coming from the Nazi Germans, The innocent Jewish people and the British Army. For this topic there are multiple questions that have recently been uncovered but most of them are just personal opinions and points of views. The real question in this assessment is what the allies could have done for the innocent Jewish population and what information that the British knew. What are your thoughts on the events that went down in World War II?
In WW2 the persecution of Jews is extremely well known, for the level of insanity shown towards the Jewish population of Germany. Over many Jewish people populated Germany before the Holocaust, which was instigated by Adolf Hitler’s idea of the perfect world (1). Many of the German population were not told about what had been happening in the camps as is someway did not want to know. They were told that the people were being moved and further questions were not often asked, this seems to be because of the extreme power of the Gestapo and SS whom orchestrated the Holocaust. (2) For these circumstances it is seen that the allies should have become further aware of the actions
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The power of the Hitler and the Nazi Germany were extreme and hard to face without risking great loss. Although the Allies had been aware of the exclusion and execution of Jews they had not been able to help too much of an extent as they had to be mindful of their own countries and the risk of war. Finally I believe that the Allies had limited option as to their ways they may have been able to have assisted in reducing or stopping the number of Jews