They always tell you how the Holocaust couldn’t have been prevented because nobody knew about it. Since I have a deep interest in secret services, and how politicians and shadow groups work with information, I found their claim implausible. They knew about Holocaust from the beginning. It was something big to miss.
Not only must they have known about it from the start, but it could have been prevented. However, even powerful Jewish clientelism in the US could have stopped it. No, they didn’t care.
Official version
In December 1942, the Allies officially acknowledged the systematic murder of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. In offical way, this was not a revelation but the culmination of reports that had been trickling in since the early days of the war. The full scope was known from the beginning, however. Resistance networks, refugees, and couriers like Jan Karski provided detailed accounts of mass killings and the existence of extermination camps. By this time, the Polish government-in-exile had already alerted the world to atrocities at Auschwitz and other sites.
Earlier evidence came from the frontlines in the East. As the Red Army counterattacked in 1943, they uncovered mass graves, including those at Babi Yar, where tens of thousands of Jews were executed. Intercepted Nazi communications and testimonies from escapees reinforced these findings. Yet, despite mounting evidence, disbelief and denial persisted among many.
The December 17, 1942, joint declaration by Allied governments condemned the “mass murder of Jews” and confirmed that the Nazis were carrying out a planned extermination. This marked a pivotal moment. While the horrors of the Holocaust were far from fully understood, the acknowledgment brought the genocide into the public sphere.
What followed was a gradual unveiling. By the time Soviet forces liberated Majdanek in 1944, the evidence was undeniable. The liberation of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen in 1945 revealed the full scale of Nazi crimes to the world. However, the seeds of this knowledge had been planted much earlier, ignored for too long, until the camps themselves became the ultimate witnesses.
The real version: They knew about Holocaust from the beginning
Their acknowledgment (in 1942) did not reflect a sudden discovery. Allied intelligence services, along with political leaders and interest groups, had been well-informed long before this public statement. The Holocaust was not a secret to those in power. In politics, especially among decision-makers and influential networks, access to information is comprehensive, and ignorance is rarely genuine.
British and American intelligence had been intercepting German communications for years. Operations like Ultra decrypted messages detailing mass executions, deportations, and the construction of extermination camps. Reports from occupied Europe were also flooding in. Resistance fighters, Jewish organizations, and couriers like Jan Karski provided detailed evidence, even delivering firsthand accounts to Allied leaders such as Roosevelt and Churchill.
Lies, lies, lies: Offical declarations after a year and a half of knowledge
By the time the Allies made their December 1942 declaration, the extent of Nazi crimes was undeniable in political and intelligence circles. The Polish government-in-exile had been sending reports about Auschwitz and other camps since 1941. Soviet forces had uncovered mass graves during their advance, exposing the scale of executions. Even before the war, the Nazi regime’s intentions were clear. The Nuremberg Laws and state-sponsored violence like Kristallnacht signaled what was to come.
The narrative that the Holocaust was “discovered” only when camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945 served a political purpose. It distanced Allied powers from their earlier inaction. This framed the genocide as an unthinkable horror that had only just come to light. In reality, Allied leaders and their intelligence services knew about the atrocities in real time. What they lacked was not information, but the political will to prioritize intervention over their broader strategic objectives.
The camps’ liberation provided undeniable proof for the public. But for those in power, it was a grim confirmation of what they had long known—and chosen not to act upon decisively. This deliberate framing of the Holocaust as a shocking discovery absolves political leaders and interest groups of their complicity in ignoring the unfolding genocide, even when the evidence was impossible to deny.
Why wasn’t the Holocaust prevented?
They knew about the Holocaust from the beginning, yet there was no political will to stop it.
First of all, disgusting antisemitism wasn’t the sole domain of Germans. Nobody cared about Jews. And politics is about serving citizens (who weren’t Jews) and—foremost—the super-rich groups (Big Banks, super-rich families).
What were the economic benefits of helping Jews? There weren’t any. If the big Jewish clientelism money in the U.S. banks mattered (and I said it didn’t), other U.S. super-rich groups would have waged a war. As you know, nothing like this happened.
Nazis and Hitler were evil, so were the Western politicians
The West’s crimes during World War II are often overshadowed by the atrocities of Nazi Germany. But they remain an undeniable stain on its moral record. These actions, combined with the knowledge of the Holocaust, reveal the hypocrisy and selective outrage that defined much of the Allies’ conduct during the war.
The Allied bombing campaigns, particularly those targeting civilian areas, are a clear example. The firebombing of Dresden in February 1945 killed tens of thousands of civilians in a city of little military value. These deliberate attacks on non-combatant populations violated the principles later codified in the Geneva Conventions. Such bombings, designed to terrorize and destroy morale, blurred the line between military necessity and mass murder.
This cannot be separated from the Allies’ knowledge of the Holocaust. By December 1942, the systematic extermination of Jews was publicly acknowledged, and Allied intelligence had been aware much earlier. Nazi communications, intercepted through operations like Ultra, and reports from resistance groups painted a clear picture of the genocide. Yet the Allies failed to act decisively. Bombing the railways leading to Auschwitz or targeting the infrastructure of extermination was feasible, but these actions were dismissed as militarily unimportant. The prioritization of military objectives over saving human lives exposed a moral failure that casts a shadow over Allied claims of righteousness.
The British Empire’s famine
The British Empire’s actions during the war further illustrate these contradictions. In 1943, the Bengal famine devastated India, killing an estimated three million people, a tragedy exacerbated by British policies that redirected food supplies to support the war effort. Meanwhile, Indian soldiers were sent to die in vast numbers for an empire that refused them independence. Across the empire, colonial subjects faced conscription, exploitation, and heavy taxation, while their calls for self-determination were systematically ignored.
The Allies also violated the Geneva Conventions in their treatment of prisoners of war and civilians. Forced repatriation policies, such as Operation Keelhaul, saw Soviet soldiers and refugees handed back to Stalin’s regime, often to face torture, execution, or imprisonment. Inhuman treatment of Axis prisoners in camps, especially those accused of war crimes, violated the conventions meant to guarantee humane conditions. Additionally, Allied forces were implicated in mass sexual violence as they advanced into Germany and other territories, further undermining claims of moral superiority.
The West betrayal
Betrayal of smaller nations added to this legacy of hypocrisy. Poland, whose invasion was the spark for Britain’s declaration of war, became a glaring example of Allied indifference. Despite their initial commitment to defend Polish sovereignty, the Allies failed to provide meaningful military support during the German invasion in 1939. Instead, they largely watched from a distance as Poland was overrun by Nazi Germany and later invaded by the Soviet Union.
At the Yalta Conference, the Allies cemented this betrayal by agreeing to hand Poland over to Soviet domination, prioritizing geopolitical strategy over the very principles of freedom and independence they had claimed to uphold. Similarly, Czechoslovakia, abandoned during the Munich Agreement in 1938, was sacrificed to appease Hitler, only to later fall under Soviet control after the war. The ideals of freedom and sovereignty, so central to Allied propaganda, were abandoned when they clashed with geopolitical strategy.
From breaking the Geneva Conventions to mass bombings and colonial exploitation, the West’s crimes during World War II reflect a broader pattern of moral compromise and self-interest. These actions, committed with full knowledge of the Holocaust, expose the deep contradictions of the Allied war effort. Their own conduct often betrayed the principles they claimed to uphold. They knew about Holocaust from the beginning and did nothing.
Conclusion
The knowledge of the Holocaust from the beginning and the failure to act is an obscene moral atrocity. However, the Holocaust was not the worst tragedy in human history, as some claim.
In 2023, approximately 733 million people faced hunger, equating to one in eleven individuals globally and one in five in Africa. Millions of children are suffering from drought’s deadly effects, including acute hunger, malnutrition, and thirst.
The majority of people live in countries where torture is prevalent. According to the World Health Organization, more than 720,000 people die by suicide each year, making it the third leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds globally. There are over 14 million suicide attempts worldwide.
One-third of global deaths—around 18 million people annually—are linked to poverty-related causes, including lack of medical care. Infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis continue to affect millions worldwide. In 2017 alone, 36.8 million people were living with HIV/AIDS, and 954,492 deaths were reported – when the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is estimated to be approximately $110 trillion USD.
Seriouse diseases, no research
Over 1 billion people worldwide live with serious diseases, including diabetes, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. Cures could be accelerated with proper global funding for research, equitable healthcare infrastructure, and prioritization of preventive medicine, but current efforts are virtually non-existent (especially in research).
Other catastrophes show that human suffering remains vast and unresolved. Armed conflicts across the globe have displaced millions, with over 100 million people forcibly displaced by 2023, according to the UNHCR. Climate change has fueled devastating natural disasters. For example, such as floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, displacing entire communities and causing billions in damages. Child labor affects approximately 160 million children worldwide, robbing them of education and safety.
Furthermore, modern slavery affects an estimated 50 million people globally, encompassing forced labor and human trafficking. Economic exploitation remains rampant, with millions working in unsafe conditions for poverty wages, perpetuating cycles of inequality. Meanwhile, environmental destruction continues, as deforestation, pollution, and loss of biodiversity threaten the planet’s ecosystems and the survival of future generations.
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