re: #237 Dark_Falcon

Michael Burleigh did a good job of examining that issue in his recent book Moral Combat. Bombing Auschwitz hard enough to have an impact would have been hard.

They bombed nearby Monowitz. Didn’t seem hard.

The death camp was so far away from US/UK bomber bases that they would have been carrying reduced bomb loads. Moreover, the inaccuracy of high level bombing (low level raids by the RAF’s Mosquitoes would have been even more difficult due to the range issue (low level flight is more fuel intensive than high level flight, owing to greater air densities))

While it’s indeed imprecise, it’s not a reason not to try, it’s a reason to try as much as possible.

meant that such a raid likely would have killed many of those confined there,

Of course, but that’s unfortunate and unavoidable collateral damage. Would have saved many more people from the gas chambers.