How could the US had intervened before it did in the Holocaust?

Not really. Witness the fact that the U.S. entered the war not in Europe but North Africa, wisely avoiding a direct confrontation with the Wehrmacht. The entire war was featured by bombing raids by air followed by ground troops. In short, it was necessary to win the war before any liberating could be done.

Heather,

Please see my answer at the link. I just answered a question similar to your question.

Michael

Few outside Germany knew about the concentration camps. Germany made a film to fool the Jews into believing the camps were nice to make them willingly leave the ghettos the Germans had pushed them all into, and likely to hide the truth from the rest of Germany of what the Nazis were doing exterminating the Jews. The propaganda film showed happy Jews being well fed and earning money from manufacturing things for Germany but in reality as soon as the film was finished all the Jews in it were exterminated.

The Allies were shocked and outraged as they entered these camps that human beings could do this to other human beings. The German officers were forced to start clearing the dead bodies which were generally diseased and infested with lice. Locals who denied they knew the reality of the camps were forced to walk through them and look at what they refused to see before the end of the war. Some were so horrified they went home and committed suicide. Whether they did not know the truth is hard to know as Germany during the war was a dangerous place for those who knew too much or asked too many questions.

I worked with an ex-WW2 British soldier who said to me do not believe those who say the concentration camps and the holocaust are hoaxes as he said he was one of the soldiers who liberated Belsen Concentration camp and said the skin and bone bodies of the dead and dying were everywhere. He said the soldiers all felt sick at what they were forced to witness there and made them hate the Germans even more for allowing such an atrocity.

I think Winston Churchill suspected these death camps existed but the US and the rest of the allies refused to believe the Germans could be so cruel, and it was not until they were actually faced with them realised such cruel places existed.

About the only thing anyone could have done before 1939 was open their boarders to Jewish refugees from German. After 1939 defeating Nazi Germany was about the only course of action open to helping the Jews. That was done as expeditiously as possible at the time.

They could have let refugees in expect anti Semitism was rampant in the USA and no deal with the Zionists was in place until 1941.

The US Navy and Marines were bogged down in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. They also were fighting in North Africa where they were hammered at Kaserene Pass until General Patton arrived. Then the army fought in Sicily and Italy fighting in the so called soft underbelly of Europe. Britain and the US Army Air Corps were bombing Germany night and day from 1942 through May 1945. The Russians were fighting 9/10ths of the German military. The Holocaust officially began in 1941 in Russia even though many Jews from Poland and France had been rounded up as in Poland or turned over to the Germans like in France without the Germans asking for them.

Willkie was known as "me too Willkie" because he also wanted to intervene in the war. The only anti-war candidate was Norman Thomas.

It couldn't.

Under what law could it have done so?

Germany is far away and you can't just cross the border and get there.

It never should have intervened.

None of the Allies had a clue about the concentration camps. During the build up to WW2 and in the early days the US (Roosevelt) had to give the illusion he was not going to participate because his opponent Wendell Willkie was an isolationist and many Americans figured the war with Germany was Europe's problem to solve. Roosevelt did send supplies to England and pledged allegiance but kept it on the down-low until after the election. Then there was a time of ramping up with military equipment and supplies and personnel for the next year or two. The US got into the war as they became prepared and it was a several years before they entered Germany and other occupied areas and found the concentration camps.

There was no crystal ball the allowed the US to even know about the Holocaust....so 1 if the tried to intervene earlier Roosevelt would have not been elected, Willkie would have remained 'neutral' and all the USA Europe and probably South America and Canada would be speaking German today.