Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
האומה
Angaben zur Quelle:
193 (תשעד) 31-37
Keywords:
אושוויץ (מחנה השמדה)
;
מידנק (מחנה ריכוז)
;
ברית המועצות שואה
Abstract:
Notes that Allied planes began to photograph the Auschwitz complex already in April 1944, but the photographs were seriously studied only much later, in the 1970s. Blames the fact that Auschwitz was not bombed on President Roosevelt, who was not overly concerned about the fate of the Jews; the State Department, many members of which were antisemitic; and Jewish leaders in the U.S. at the time, most of whom were not willing to draw attention to the plight of European Jewry. States that the argument that Allied planes could not be diverted from their main goal of winning the war is ridiculous, since hundreds of planes were sometimes used in just one day to bombard German cities. Another argument, that there might have also been innocent victims in such a bombing, is not valid, because no one would have complained. Points out that nearby Monowitz, part of the Auschwitz complex, was actually bombed in August 1944, because synthetic fuel was made there. In September 1944 seven bombs fell on Auschwitz, destroying one of the gas chambers, but this only happened by accident.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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