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“There is no doubt that this is probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world, and it has been done by scientific machinery by nominally civilized men in the name of a great state and one of the leading races in Europe.”
-- Winston Churchill
When it was suggested that the allies bomb the railway lines in Hungary leading to Auschwitz, Winston was eager, but the Americans decided that it would divert resources from the pressing goal of outright victory, and that such bombing would not produce any meaningful solution since the railway lines could be speedily rebuilt.
June 1944.
(Source: “The Conquerors” by Michael Beschloss)
-- Winston Churchill
When it was suggested that the allies bomb the railway lines in Hungary leading to Auschwitz, Winston was eager, but the Americans decided that it would divert resources from the pressing goal of outright victory, and that such bombing would not produce any meaningful solution since the railway lines could be speedily rebuilt.
June 1944.
(Source: “The Conquerors” by Michael Beschloss)
