Why did the US and Britain not release the information about the Final Solution that they had?

1. The US and British governments were at first very skeptical about the information that they received about the Holocaust, and some of it was exaggerated.

2. In World War 1 (1914-1918) the Entente published a lot of false information about German atrocities.

3. In late 1942 and early1943 quite a lot of information was in fact released. It was reported and discussed in the media and there was even talk of trying to 'do something to rescue the Jews'. However, a lot of this seems not to have registered with the public. In a war news from the battlefields is usually far more exciting than reports about ongoing processes.