Hi Larry,
You are quite right that the liberation of the concentration camps was not the aim of the war. About thirty minutes walk from here is a former embarkation point to the camps - and there are several bridges and junctions which could have been bombed to slow down the rate of liquidation. In the woods where I sometimes go walking with my children, there is a memorial to seventy odd "Gastarbeiter" (slaves) who were killed by the locals in a pogrom when they were suspected (rightly or wrongly) of having slaughtered and eaten a pig.
The punishment of those who actually profited from slave labour was always sporadic and inconsistent. Dr.Werner von Braun certainly knew that slave labour was used to build rocket launching sites at Peenemünde - and you doubtless are well aware of the punishment which the US government inflicted on him!
In fact the SPD - then a left wing party in Germany - informed British intelligence about the death camps and asked them to bomb the lines. I do not know why this did not happen. I am willing to be persuaded that they simply refused. They were callous enough to participate in the Dresden massacre. On the other hand, the scale of killing beggared belief - and I am equally open to the line that the Allies just did not believe that a civilised nation was capable of such bestial crimes.
Nowadays, after Cambodia, Palestine, Ruanda and Bosnia, we have seen ample evidence on our TV screens that human beings really do still do these things to each other. Believe me Larry, if I ever see a machete bearing mob marching towards my house, I will trust in the power of the gun before I put much faith in the power of prayer. I have a very high threshold of violence - and in most cases would indeed prefer to run away even than to use it in self defence. Your choice is probably the bravest of all. I think that my choice is a step in the right direction. I have every respect and admiration for yours.
Alan.