Allied governments' responses to reports about the Nazi extermination campaign against the Jews in 1944

© Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2017 All rights reserved. Some historians have suggested a causal link between popular anti-Semitism and failing policies to protect the Jews from the Holoacaust. But the US and the UK governments hesitated because they feared it might reduce broad support for the war The allied governments were careful of accepting the first reports about the Holocaust because they were concerned for the safety of their POWs