Why did America not bomb Auschwitz?
TitelWhy did America not bomb Auschwitz?
Auteur
Call numberP940.547243094386/022
Objectnummer10659
Plaats van uitgaveJerusalem
UitgeverHebrew University of Jerusalem
Jaar van uitgave
2007
MateriaalLosbladig
NotesA paper written as part of the seminar: Analyzing U.S. Foreign Policy
Beschrijving
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.