[Peptobismol]

Well if they had crippled the gas chambers and crematoria it would have slowed down the slaughter because the Germans, ever the practical ones, were faced with a real production line problem where they simply had to industrialise their murder and body disposal machinery in order to do away with as many Jews as they did. They tried for years to shoot people in ditches or hook up truck exhausts to sealed rooms and they just couldn't achieve the kind of mass death production efficiencies they could with the death factories. If we had destroyed the death factories they would not have been as able to kill people on such a wide scale.

[doctorzlo]

In all practical terms bombing of Auzwitz was a physical impossibility. The bomber force would have been decimated on the way.

Even if Auzwitz would be bombed what would it do exactly? The intensive bombing compaign did not stop too many German factories and this is a concentration camp.

Dear MIL....

Auschwitz was not only a concentration camp ,one part of Auschwitz was organized and they where a lot of important factories ,producing ...amunitions...oil...devices ....various equipments ........etc etc ...and they "employed" 50.000 peoples (slaves), when they where "tired " they where sent to the gaz chambers..only a very good specialist or a recommanded could stay for long....Auschwitz where divided and five very big part.....Birkenau was the place where they exterminated our people immediately......near 1944 they where able to assassinate 24000 people in per day......!! and it has been a bombing in Auschwitz ,but only over the oil production site (which was very important for the nazis.....planes...panzer....every mechanical device need oil ...and plane a very special type.....

Hugs to you ....(and me).......

Insight.

[Lillie_Steins]

Posted by RichardP:


and in other camps.


Out of 4.5 million captured Red Army personal 3 million never came home. Death rate in captivity %67!!!!! On the other hand out of 3 million Germans captured during the war by the Soviets 2 million came home - death rate in captivity of 33%.

I believe you mentioned your Grandfather was in the Red Army, you have a direct handle on the horrors (to put it mildly) they suffered, as well.

My grandfather visited Auzwitz three days after the liberation. Given two years of war already behind him what he saw at Auzwitz shocked even him. The other slaughter house he was shocked by was the Balkans (Yugoslavia).

[doctorzlo]

Auzwitz wasn't much of a production facility - nothing that would do anything to the German ability to fight. Bombing Auzwitz in all practical terms would have been a waste and accomplish absolutely nothing - as sad as it sounds.

[LottiFurmann]

In all practical terms bombing of Auzwitz was a physical impossibility. The bomber force would have been decimated on the way.

Even if Auzwitz would be bombed what would it do exactly? The intensive bombing compaign did not stop too many German factories and this is a concentration camp.

[Lt_Apple]

Rich,

Today we have Israel equipped with one of the strongest armies in the world with firepower greater then all of Wermacht was ever capable of. Don't warry - there will not be another Holocaust.

On the matter of bombing Auzwitz; it would have accomplished absolutely nothing. The crematoriums would have been rebuilt in no-time and the gassing would still go on. The only thing that could have saved more lives at Auzwitz would have been some kind of a Soviet offensive directed specifically at Auzwitz sometime in 1944 - over 1,000,000 Soviet POWs died or were processed through Berkenau.

[Lillie_Steins]

B25 or B26s would have been very accurate for that task

And when did B25 and B26 come into service?