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In unusually harsh remarks to parliament, Sharon noted that when the Nazis began deporting Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz in large numbers in 1944, Allied forces did not bomb the railroad tracks leading to the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Sharon said that over a period of several weeks, more than 600,000 Jews from Hungary were killed in Auschwitz.
“The sad and terrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being killed,” Sharon said.
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While it's a valid opinion I don't think it's exactly true - yes the Allies could have bombed the railroad tracks, but that would have entailed the commitment of forces devoted to fighting the Axis.
Further the difficulty that the Allies had even striking at "military" targets within Hungary (or anywhere really in Eastern Europe or the Balkans) was pretty high as well.
The arguement that Churchill used was that destroying the Nazi war machine was the quickest way to save or liberate those being hunted by the Nazis.
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