The bombing of Auschwitz
Subtitle: should the allies have attempted it?
By: edited by Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum.
Contributors: Neufeld, Michael J., 1951-; Berenbaum, Michael, 1945-
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Congresses.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations -- Congresses.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Did we 'know' the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the railroads leading to the camp, thereby saving thousands of lives and disrupting Nazi efforts to exterminate European Jews. Did failure to do so simply reflect a callous indifference to the plight of the Jews or was it a realistic assessment of a plan that could not succeed? In this volume, a number of eminent military and Holocaust historians and others--including Sir Martin Gilbert, Walter Laqueur, James Kitchens III, Richard Levy, Gerhard Weinberg, Williamson Murray, and Deborah Lipstadt--address and debate those very questions."--p. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-329) and index.
Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Original ed. was based on a symposium held April 30, 1993 at the Smithsonian Institution, sponsored jointly by the National Air and Space Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."