Auschwitz-Birkenau: Allied Bombing Controversy

Analysis

• Could The Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz-Birkenau?

Primary Source Material

• McCloy Informs War Refugee Board US Won't Bomb Auschwitz (November 18, 1944)
• Churchill Letter on Decision to Not Bomb the Concentration Camps (September 18-20, 1944)
• Plea by Va'ad Hahatzala to Bomb the Auschwitz Railway Lines (September 2, 1944)
• Jewish Agency Asks British Government to Bomb Auschwitz & Treblinka Death Camps (August 18, 1944)
• War Department Rejects World Jewish Congress Request to Bomb Auschwitz (August 9-14, 1944)
• McCloy Tells Pehle Bombing Camps  “Impracticable” (July 4)
• Proposed Air Action to Impede Deportation of Hungarian and Slovak Jews (June 26, 1944)