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When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be "the complete annihilation of the Jews," he did so in 1942, not only in public, but before an enormous crowd in Berlin. The Allies heard, but astonishingly, they did not listen. Why?
In 1944, Allied reconnaissance pilots, searching out industrial targets in the area, repeatedly photographed Auschwitz. The pictures, apparently overlooked by the Allies, were routinely filed in government archives and not examined until 1979. Why?
First-hand reports on the horrors of the death camps came to the West by 1944 in the person of two escaped Auschwitz prisoners. Their testimonies, and those of subsequent escapees, were either ignored or dismissed. Why?
Despite the fact that, the same year, Churchill himself had ordered feasibility studies for air strikes on Auschwitz, the RAF not only did nothing, but eventually passed the buck to the Americans, who also did nothing. Why?
In 1944, Allied reconnaissance pilots, searching out industrial targets in the area, repeatedly photographed Auschwitz. The pictures, apparently overlooked by the Allies, were routinely filed in government archives and not examined until 1979. Why?
First-hand reports on the horrors of the death camps came to the West by 1944 in the person of two escaped Auschwitz prisoners. Their testimonies, and those of subsequent escapees, were either ignored or dismissed. Why?
Despite the fact that, the same year, Churchill himself had ordered feasibility studies for air strikes on Auschwitz, the RAF not only did nothing, but eventually passed the buck to the Americans, who also did nothing. Why?
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One of Britain's most distinguished historians, Martin Gilbert was knighted in 1995. A fellow of Merton College, Oxford, he is also the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Among his books are The Holocaust, The Second World War, Churchill: A Life, Auschwitz and the Allies, The First World War, and Never Again.
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(Subject: The Third Reich - General) In 1944, Allied reconnaissance pilots, searching out industrial targets in the area, repeatedly photographed Auschwitz. The pictures, apparently overlooked by the Allies, were routinely filed in government archives and not examined until 1979. First-hand reports on the horrors of the death camps came to the West by 1944 in the person of two escaped Auschwitz prisoners. Their testimonies, and those of subsequent escapees, were either ignored or dismissed. This book explains the reasons why. (Published: 1981) (Publisher: Michael Joseph) (ISBN: 0718120175) (Condition: 368pp illustrations, endpaper maps) UL-XXXXXX. Seller Inventory # 18084-02
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AUSCHWITZ AND THE ALLIES: How The Allies Responded To The News Of Hitler's Final Solution
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black & black 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. library discard copy in vg cond. binding square & tight. covers clean with a bit of sunfading. edges clean. old inkstamp blacked out at bottom of title pg. rear flyleaf has glue residue from old pocket (?) otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. 1 cm tear spine top, missing 1"x3" piece of rear flap (see photos), not price clipped. nice vintage copy. no names, inking, underlining, no remainder markings. except for the blacked out inkstamp & pocket residue, has no library markings. first edition. first printing (Fu1981 & NAP). endpaper maps. 368p. b&w photos & illustrations. 19 additional maps. endnotes. index. world war ii. history of poland. nazi germany. third reich. ~ 'The result of this war will be the complete annihilation of the Jews.' Hitler's words, spoken to an enormous crowd at the Sports Palace in Berlin in 1942, were no idle threat. He did not speak of how it would be done, or that the gas chambers of Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Chelmno were already in preparation even while he spoke. Nor did he mention the name or location of what was later to be called 'the worst of all the camps.' Auschwitz was to keep its horrifying secret for another two years, until the summer of 1944. Martin Gilbert's sources include several hundred previously unpublished documents from all over the world. He has also traced many eve~witnesses of the events he describes, including survivors of Auschwitz itself; and, with all this assembled, he sets out to answer the questions: 'What was known, and when?', 'How did the Allied Governments react?'. and, in a dramatic final section, 'Why was Auschwitz never bombed?' In graphic detail, Martin Gilbert describes the series of detailed reports that reached the wartime 'listening~posts' in neutral Switzerland, in London, Washington and Jerusalem. He shows how the initial reaction to these reports was one of disbelief, and it was not until the facts could be denied no longer, that a search for avenues of escape began: a search which, as he reveals all too clearly, was often blocked by Allied fears of a 'flood' of Jewish refugees who would have to be given shelter in the West. At the centre of the truth about Auschwitz as a report compiled by two young Jews ho managed to escape from the camp itself. Gilbert describes their escape and follows their horrific information on its long and hazardous path, beginning within sight of the gas chamber, and ending on Winston Churchill's desk. What can be said ? What can be done?' Churchill asked in anguish when he read the details of the slaughter, and he at once gave his personal authority to examine the possibility of bombing, not only the railway lines leading to the camp, but even the gas chambers themselves. Although the plan was technically possible, it was never attempted. Martin Gilbert's account, which is scrupulously researched, explains why. Seller Inventory # 1312201
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