Why did America not bomb Auschwitz?
TitreWhy did America not bomb Auschwitz?
Auteur
Call numberP940.547243094386/022
N° d'objet10659
Lieu de publicationJerusalem
Année de publication
2007
MatérielOuvrage à feuillets mobiles
NotesA paper written as part of the seminar: Analyzing U.S. Foreign Policy
Description
Examines why the United States failed to bomb the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and the rail lines leading to it.The question whether the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) could or should have attempted bombing, although speculative and hypothetical, is not detached from the former, purely historical one. On the contrary, the two are inseparable. For in order to determine the American motivation for not bombing, it is necessary to asses the genuineness and sincerity of the arguments with which the bombing appeals were rejected in 1944.