1944: When The US Wanted To Bomb Auschwitz | Should We Bomb Auschwitz? | Timeline

Published 2024-05-04
In April 1944, two Jewish prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. When they recounted what they had left behind, their harrowing testimony revealed the true horror of the Holocaust to the outside world for the first time. They described in forensic detail the gas chambers and the full extent of the extermination programme. The news they brought presented the Allies with one of the greatest moral questions of the 20th century: Should we bomb Auschwitz?

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All Comments (21)
  • @AiraCamille
    One of my favourite escape stories.. when I first learned about the story of Vrba and Bretzel I can't believe it was a real story.
  • @jimrobinson684
    There are people in my country that want to change how history is taught . When you try to change how it's taught ..you are FULLY intending to repeat it .
  • @tracynorris5012
    Absolutely Heartbreaking. But, I learned from watching this one. It should be taught in schools all over the world. Lest, we forget and History repeats itself.. Prayers for the survivors 🙏🙏🙏
  • @LaReinaValeska
    Never heard of these two guys before... 😔 What an amazing story.
  • @alechamid235
    It blows my mind on how people could be so evil to do such things to another human being. It's beyond evilness to me.
  • @russf6572
    I notice that more and more people are denying this ever happened. There were no 'deniers' right after the war because there were too many people who saw proof with their own eyes. But as more and more of the witnesses passed on, the deniers started to become more. This should tell you something about the people who say it never happened. More specifically, their lack of courage. Today the deniers outnumber the survivors. I'm saddened that in a generation this will only be seen as a myth. (despite the visual and written evidence)
  • @57113
    Interesting and informative documentary on the account of the bombing of Auschwitz and the two young men who escaped to get the info out what was happening. I have never heard of this before in a historical documentary. Thanks for an important part of Holocaust history.
  • @elvenkind6072
    There's a movie made about this story, called The Auschwitz Report from 2021.
  • @madisondean1074
    In regards to stopping the Holocaust, there's not much the Allies could've done. Take into account that there are 42,500 camps total, the Holocaust would've continued and not to mention the severe reprisals that would've happened. The only way to really stop the Holocaust in its tracks for good was to win the war. If anyone wants to know more about the story shown on screen, I highly recommend a book titled The Escape Artist by Johnathan Freedland. It's easily my favorite book despite the grim subject it pertains to.
  • @SammyB-Habebe
    I have been in Poland several times! I have travelled throughout Poland to witness every Camp from the first one Stutthof to the horrible one Auschwitz! Germany 🇩🇪 owes Poland 🇵🇱 apology for the next coming years on this planet 🌎 for the unimaginable horrible works from 1940-1945!
  • @mikenixon2401
    I had never heard about these two brave young men. Eighty years later this among other realities of World War II need to be taught to adults (younger than we boomers) as well as children, as we face a new force of evil against Israel and all Jews around the world. Thank you for this presentation.
  • @derpandabar
    This is wild, growing up in the US in the 90s I NEVER learned that we had advance knowledge of the concentration camps, the story was always told of how shocked the soldiers were when they liberated the camps but nothing about this. Thank you.
  • @chrispacer4231
    My wife and I just finished watching the Series The TATOOST OF AUSCHWIST on PEACOCK…. It was unbelievable what happened to these people…. It was amazing what these people did to survive ( the one’s that did ) It’s scary, it could happen again… A small part of this story was in that series…….
  • @andrewbird57
    Most of the reasons why Auschwitz wasn't bombed were touched on in this vid. But one reason was not fully explored, and that is the military men running the war for the Allies had one objective - to win. They assumed those running the war in Germany had the same objective, and they couldn't fathom Germany would divert such massive resources from their war effort to carry out an ideological pursuit that had no military value. The Germans were losing on three fronts. It didn't make sense to the Allied military commanders and I'm not sure they fully believed or understood the reports coming out of Auschwitz. My dad was a POW at Lamsdorf, in the same part of Poland as Auschwitz. I've been to Auschwitz and have talked to guides and the local historians about this.
  • @fuyu5979
    Unbelievable n Shocking!!! Was lead to believe before that Allies only found about genocide of Jews n the extermination camps when they actually liberated the various camps. Shocking the higher ups in the Allies had advanced protocols of the camps !!! Where were their conscience? Kudos for the upload. Thoroughly mind-boggling presentation ! Wished the docudrama was hours longer: so interesting! Anticipating ur next one. Peace
  • @user-uj1hl4ho8c
    I had read stories like this or similar when I was still in Europe. Every time I see these pictures of Jewish people in Poland I sickened my stomach.
  • Thank you. How incredibly important this is for such a time as this
  • @cijmo
    Thank you for continuing to educate people. There is always one face in the footage I look for, he's very close to the end and I see him often and I'm always wondering if anyone knows anything about him. At 57:45 is a man with a lot of black hair. It's just so profound to see someone with this much hair in these photos. I always wondered if anyone knows his name, are there any descendants of his who comes here etc. I would like to know what became of him after liberation, I would like to know his name so I can say a prayer for him. His face just always touches me.
  • @zillsburyy1
    because it would have killed a lot of the prisoners