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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Jews --- Rescue. --- #BUAR:bibl.de Bock --- World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue.

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Holocaust [Jewish ] (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue. --- Jews - Palestine - Politics and government. --- Zionism - History.

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"The result of this war will be the complete annihilation of the Jews". Hitler's words, spoken to an enormous crowd at the Sports Palace in Berlin in 1942, were no idle threat. He did not speak of how it would be done, or that the gas chambers of Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Chelmno were already in preparation even while he spoke. Nor did he mention the name or location of what was later to be called "the worst of all the camps". Auschwitz was to keep its horrifying secret for another two years, until the summer of 1944. Martin Gilbert's sources include several hundred previously unpublished documents from all over the world. He has also traced many eye-witnesses of the events he describes, including survivors of Auschwitz itself ; and, with all this assembled, he sets out to answer the questions : "What was known, and when ?", "How did the Allied Governments react ?", and, in a dramatic final section, "Why was Auschwitz never bombed ?". In graphic detail, Martin Gilbert describes the series of detailed reports that reached the wartime "listening-posts" in neutral Switzerland, in London, Washington and Jerusalem. He shows how the initial reaction to these reports was one of disbelief, and it was not until the facts could be denied no longer, that a search for avenues of escape began : a search which, as he reveals all too clearly, was often blocked by allied fears of a "flood" of Jewish refugees who would have to be given shelter in the West. At the centre of the truth about Auschwitz was a report compiled by two young Jews who managed to escape from the camp itself. Gilbert describes their escape and follows their horrific information on its long and hazardous path, beginning within sight of the gas chamber, and ending on Winston Churchill's desk. "What can be said ? What can be done ?" Churchill asked in anguish when he read the details of the slaughter, and he at once gave his personal authority to examine the possibility of bombing, not only the railway lines leading to the camp, but even the gas chambers themselves. Although the plan was technically possible, it was never attempted. Martin Gilbert's account, which is scrupulously reached, explains why.

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Zionism - History - Congresses. --- Jewish youth - Europe - Societies and clubs - Congresses. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Congresses. --- World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue - Congresses. --- World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements, Jewish - Congresses.