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Auschwitz-Birkenau: Allied Bombing Controversy

Analysis

  • Could The Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz-Birkenau?

Primary Source Material

  • McCloy Informs War Refugee Board US Won't Bomb Auschwitz (November 18, 1944)
  • Churchill Letter on Decision to Not Bomb the Concentration Camps (September 18-20, 1944)
  • Plea by Va'ad Hahatzala to Bomb the Auschwitz Railway Lines (September 2, 1944)
  • Jewish Agency Asks British Government to Bomb Auschwitz & Treblinka Death Camps (August 18, 1944)
  • War Department Rejects World Jewish Congress Request to Bomb Auschwitz (August 9-14, 1944)
  • McCloy Tells Pehle Bombing Camps  “Impracticable” (July 4)
  • Proposed Air Action to Impede Deportation of Hungarian and Slovak Jews (June 26, 1944)
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