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Hi!

I have a crazy question. We know that simply bombing the railroad tracks leading to the camps wouldn't do much good as the Germans would just rebuild them (and the bombers didn't have enough precision to do the job). But what if they were to actually bomb the camps themselves, which were bigger targets and more difficult to replace?

Yes, inmates would be killed along with the Nazis. However, many of them would have died anyway and in one very real sense killing them would have put them out of their misery. The important thing would be that destroying the camps would make it much more difficult for Hitler to implement the Final Solution (at least I would expect so at least). Preventing the Holocaust would be better in the long run, and destroying the camps would do that.

I suspect the bombers wouldn't be precise enough to eliminate the gas chambers...but who knows?
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