{"product_id":"auschwitz-and-the-allies-9780712668064","title":"Auschwitz and the Allies","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be the complete annihilation of the Jews  he did so in 1942  not only in public  but before an enormous crowd in Berlin. The Allies heard  but  astonishingly  they did not listen. In 1944  Allied reconnaissance pilots  searching out industrial targets in the area  repeatedly photographed Auschwitz. The pictures  apparently overlooked by the Allies  were routinely filed in government archives and not examined until 1979. First-hand reports on the horrors of the death camps came to the West by 1944 in the person of two escaped Auschwitz prisoners. Their testimonies  and those of subsequent escapees  were either ignored or dismissed. Despite the fact that  the same year  Churchill himself had ordered feasibility studies for air strikes on Auschwitz  the RAF not only did nothing  but eventually passed the buck to the Americans  who also did nothing. This book explains the reasons why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651662995509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0712668063","price":29.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780712668064.jpg?v=1781837173","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/auschwitz-and-the-allies-9780712668064","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}