Looking back to the events of the Holocaust many people question why the Allies did not do more to help the Jews of Europe. Some ask how much the Allies actually knew about what was happening in Europe under the cloud of war. On the other hand, there are those who challenge the Allies as to why they did not do more to enable the Jews of Europe to escape the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. Until the outbreak of World War Two, the British press had full access to the events in Nazi Germany, which they reported. The American press had this access until December 1941 when Germany declared war on America By December 1942 the Allied governments had built up a dossier of evidence of Nazi atrocities. Yet, despite knowledge of the ‘Final Solution’ and pleas of help, there was no real effort by the allies to rescue the Jews of Europe. By the spring of 1944, there was widespread knowledge about Auschwitz. The last great Jewish community still intact in Europe was the Hungarian community. To destroy them the Nazis built the railway lines straight to the crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Therefore, why did the Allies not bomb the camps or the railway lines? The allies argued that they did not have the capacity to conduct accurate air raids on Nazi camps. They felt that a speedy victory in the war was the best method to put a stop to the Nazi atrocities and to save the Jews.