Wait, we knew about it as early as 1942? I was told that no one believed it until liberation when we won the war and first landed at the camps themselves.
There is very little Britain could have done to stop this in 1942. It was already engaged in total war against the Axis powers.
The idea of bombing railway lines is hilariously out of touch, bomber command could barely hit within 5 miles of a target. At that distance you’d expect accuracy similar to over the Ruhr valley, where only 1 in 10 bomber aircraft would hit within 5 miles of a target according to the Butt report.
Good luck hitting a railway line, which would’ve been promptly repaired anyway, at a range that was completely impractical.
Hitting the camps, even with the few bombers that ended up being accurate, was obviously far more likely to kill victims of the Nazis than Nazis themselves.
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Wait, we knew about it as early as 1942? I was told that no one believed it until liberation when we won the war and first landed at the camps themselves.
There is very little Britain could have done to stop this in 1942. It was already engaged in total war against the Axis powers.
The idea of bombing railway lines is hilariously out of touch, bomber command could barely hit within 5 miles of a target. At that distance you’d expect accuracy similar to over the Ruhr valley, where only 1 in 10 bomber aircraft would hit within 5 miles of a target according to the Butt report.
Good luck hitting a railway line, which would’ve been promptly repaired anyway, at a range that was completely impractical.
Hitting the camps, even with the few bombers that ended up being accurate, was obviously far more likely to kill victims of the Nazis than Nazis themselves.
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