not everything is vanity

Book review:

The Bombing of Auschwitz:

Should the Allies have Attempted It?

Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum, eds.

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000

350 pages with extensive notes, bibliography, and index

The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies have Attempted It? is a retrospective, somewhat repetitive but broadly didactic selection of 15 arguments for and against the bombing of Auschwitz, with more than 40 primary source documents.

You’ll learn a lot about the terrible dilemma that the Allies faced—and some of them tried to ignore—during World War II. If the Allies had tried to bomb the crematoria, would Jewish lives have been saved? At what cost to the overall war effort?

Neufeld and Berenbaum offer 15 points of view, but, of course, the questions can’t be answered with full confidence.

Sadly, we can’t re-do the solitary track of history.

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by William Golding

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