World War 2 and the Holocaust

Hitler should not have done the holocaust during World War II. If he had simply put it off, he wouldn't have wasted resources killing jews, and could have actually won. In fact, it would have made more sense for him to use them as suicide troops. Send them out on suicide missions. If they succeed, he wins, if they die, he gets rid of some jews.

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The US never used the Holocaust as a reason to go to war, or even dealt with it much until after the war.

The reasons the US joined the war was to back up treaty obligations to it's European allies, like Britain, which Germany was planning to invade.

The most direct reason for joining the war, of course, was Pearl Harbor.  That's what shifted US public opinion at the time away from isolationism.

The Roosevelt government mostly ignored reports of the Holocaust, focusing on Germany's war machine instead of, say, diverting a few bombers for one mission to destroy the train tracks to death camps.

The US government didn't join the war because of the Holocaust, and trying to make themselves look good after the fact by claiming they did is just historical revisionism.