Why allies didnt bomb auschwitz

Low graphics Accessibility help. News services Your news when you want it. News Front Page. E-mail this to a friend Printable version. Debate over the Allied response to the Holocaust still rages. No-one was bothered enough to make bombing Auschwitz a priority. Enlarge Image. A plan to drop weapons to the camp to assist a rebellion was considered. As they gathered round us a German soldier began firing a rifle over their heads, lowering the muzzle after each shot, so that, had he continued, he would have fired into the crowd.

I went to him, covered him with my revolver, and ordered him to stop. He stopped. Prisoners, distinguished by their blue-and-white clothes, were going about striking other prisoners with flat pieces of wood that might have been sections of packing cases.

They were functionaries with camp-given authority. They lifted their sticks well back and their blows made a sickening noise on the prisoners' bodies. Prisoners were told they should go to their quarters and did so. Kramer told him that the prisoners got turnip soup twice a day when it was available, which was not the case when the water supply was cut off by damage to the Hanover electric power system. The witness went to see the concrete static water tanks, which were an alternative source of supply.

They were dirty, with floating fragments of clothing and leather in them. See all comments The Americans and the British did high altitude bombing. Not very accurate. It's doubtful if it would have accomplished anything. However, the Soviets were approximately miles away during the last 6 months of Aushwitz's operations. The Soviets had Illushin Stormovik ground attack planes. They could have easily stopped operations at Aushwitz with minimal collateral damage to the prisoners.

We should have at the very least bombed the rail lines leading to the camps. Steve Orlowski said:. Or maybe Prescott Bush shouldn't have helped to fund Hitler in the first place and or the bankers. Does Rothschild ring a bell?

And what about IBM? Take a look at what they did for Hitler. The focus on bombing Auschwitz may actually be misplaced, since that was just one of hundreds of concentration camps albeit perhaps the worst. Many Jews could have been saved by bombing other camps as well. The Allies did bomb Buchenwald , for example, but not for the purpose of saving Jews. Sources : 1 David S. Newton, ed. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, September Encyclopaedia Judaica. All Rights Reserved; M.

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