The Bombing of Auschwitz Revisited: A Critical Analysis
The Allies did not bomb Auschwitz as requested in 1944, and this has come to symbolize in the popular mind callous indifference to—or even complicity in—the crimes the Nazis committed there, and indeed all of the failures of American and British refugee policy from at least 1938. Such a perspective...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1996
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1996, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 267-298 |
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| Summary: | The Allies did not bomb Auschwitz as requested in 1944, and this has come to symbolize in the popular mind callous indifference to—or even complicity in—the crimes the Nazis committed there, and indeed all of the failures of American and British refugee policy from at least 1938. Such a perspective was promoted by David Wyman in a 1978 article and a 1984 book. Unfortunately these cotain, in Dr. Levy's judgment, numerous mistakes, misrepresenting 1944 opinion(jewish and non–jewish, civillan and millitary), making many errors when discussing the operational problems and ignoring the command problems that would have been involved, and—against considerable evidence—claiming that bombing the gas chambers and crematoria would have saved many lives. This article presents contrary evidence and conclusions.* |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/10.3.267 |