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Why Wasn't Auschwitz Bombed?

Arkan_Wolfshade said:
2) Why they hell would you bomb a prison camp?
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There were two theories on this. First, if the rail lines leading to Auschwitz had been bombed, the deportations might have been disrupted, or even stopped. Second, if the gas chambers and crematoria had been damaged or destroyed, the rate of killing might have been significantly slowed.
 
Auschwitz wasn't bombed because it was strategically irrelevant.

Bombing prison camps doesn't win wars.
 
Actually there is at least one case of the allies bombing a prison camp in order to facilitate the escape of prisoners. They used mosquitoes, those plywood wonders, to accurately hit the walls of the camp.

The main reason it was done, IIRC, was because they had very good intelligence on the structure of the camp and contact with the POWs to plan the escape.

Mosquitoes were the precision bombers of WW2.
 
Somebody tell me, is this about Americans/British not knowing? Or knowing and not doing anything? Or something else?

What is the point?
 
BenBurch said:
The only really accurate bombing in WW-II was dive-bombing, and that was only really that accurate in the hands of masters like Hans-Ulrich RudelWP.
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For the underinformed, the master of Stuka use (Kannonenvogel is my favorite!!). That means A)he was German and B)unlikely to bomb German targets.
 
fuelair said:
For the underinformed, the master of Stuka use (Kannonenvogel is my favorite!!). That means A)he was German and B)unlikely to bomb German targets.
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Correct. I believe we had no similar standout ace, though some of those who participated in the Battle of Midway were clearly quite proficient. In the navy, really good SBD pilots were usually transferred to fighter squadrons. Not sure about the US Army, though nobody stands out in my recollection.
 
Mondial said:
Never mind what George Bush and the mainstream media have to say this is a more credible answer as to why Auschwitz wasn't bombed -
www.air-photo.com
www.air-photo.com/english/reasons.html
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It seems that these Holo-no-no sites, along with those denying the obvious on 9/11 and pushing depleted uranium hysteria, have a certain unscholarly, almost tabloid look to them.

Why? Apparently it must appeal to the gullible. I know that's the format used by the Star and the Globe, anyhow.

Is there a "propaganda" template these guys use?
 
robinson said:
Why didn't they just bomb Hitler?
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For that to work you'd have to know the precise location he would be in at the time the bombers came overhead. Then you'd still have to hope he didn't make it into a bomb shelter. It was impossible to conduct a surprise attack using heavy bombers, either by day or night. The closest you can come is by using diversions and tricking the Germans into thinking one location was the target of the raid while actually a different location was the real target. But the Luftwaffe certainly knew in either case there were bombers coming in.

robinson said:
Somebody tell me, is this about Americans/British not knowing? Or knowing and not doing anything? Or something else?
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I'm guessing it's the middle item of your list.
 
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There were plans to go after Hitler, but my understanding is, he was making such a hash of running the war - especially after Stalingrad the allies thought it would speed up the war to leave him there
 
MG1962 said:
There were plans to go after Hitler, but my understanding is, he was making such a hash of running the war - especially after Stalingrad the allies thought it would speed up the war to leave him there
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Yup, I can imagine how the war would have gone with a competent military man as fuhrer instead of an arrogant madman.
 
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BenBurch said:
Retrospectively, yes. A lot of what we now regard as war crimes came out of that conflict, so I'm not sure if it was regarded so prior to that time.
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The attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings which are undefended is prohibited.

Annex to the Convention Article 25
Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV), 1907
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It's certainly not as clear cut as Geneva IV, but I think it qualifies.
 
Also the SHELL HOUSE in Copenhagen, being used as Gestapo HQ. Again Mosquitos used
to destroy records of resistence fighters housed in building. Also to spring some members
of resistence being held there. During raid one plane crased into neighboring JEANNE
D'ARC school causing several following planes to drop their loads on it killing many
students and teachers in the school

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1367454/posts

Planning and carrying out such a raid was extremely difficult given 1940's technology
(even today is not easy)
 
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