Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,2 (2006) 127-140
Schlagwort(e):
Churchill, Winston,
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Jews History 1939-1945
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history
Kurzfassung:
Many historians tend to exonerate Churchill from all responsibility for Britain's failure to bomb Auschwitz in 1944 or to attempt to rescue the Jews in the Nazi camps. Dismisses the main "lines of defense" chosen by historians - that Churchill had determined in 1943 that everything would be done to promote the war effort and nothing that was not "bona fide" for the war, that he was too busy directing the war effort, and that the Whitehall bureaucracy sabotaged the bombing project behind Churchill's back. Based on a letter sent in July 1944 to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Melchett, argues that, while aware that Auschwitz was "the greatest and most terrible crime ever committed", Churchill adopted the official Allied line - that Jews would not be singled out from other Nazi victims, and that the only way to help them was to devote all Allied efforts to bringing the war to the speediest end.
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