Debat pengeboman Auschwitz

Persoalan mengapa Sekutu tidak bertindak atas laporan awal mengenai kekejaman di kamp konsentrasi Auschwitz dengan menghancurkan kamp tersebut atau jalur kereta api melalui udara selama Perang Dunia II telah menjadi bahan kontroversi sejak akhir tahun 1970-an. Menjadi perhatian publik melalui artikel tahun 1978 yang ditulis oleh sejarawan David Wyman, hal ini digambarkan oleh Michael Berenbaum sebagai "sebuah pertanyaan moral yang melambangkan tanggapan Sekutu terhadap penderitaan orang-orang Yahudi selama Holokaus", dan apakah Sekutu memiliki persyaratan tersebut atau tidak. Pengetahuan dan kemampuan teknis bertindak terus dieksplorasi oleh para sejarawan. Pemerintah AS mengikuti nasihat kuat militer untuk selalu menjadikan kekalahan Jerman sebagai tujuan utama, dan menolak untuk menoleransi nasihat sipil dari luar mengenai operasi militer alternatif. Tidak ada organisasi besar Yahudi Amerika yang merekomendasikan pengeboman.

Salah satu dari serangkaian foto pengintaian udara Auschwitz yang diambil antara tanggal 4 April 1944 – 14 Januari 1945, namun baru diperiksa pada tahun 1970-an.

Lihat pula

• The Abandomment of the Jews
• Perdebatan fungsionalisme-intensionalisme
• Sejarah Yahudi di Hungaria
• Tanggapan internasional terhadap Holokaus
• Operasi Jericho
• Dukungan luar selama Pemberontakan Warsawa
• Witold's Report

Referensi

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Bacaan lebih lanjut

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• Westermann, Edward B. (2001). "The Royal Air Force and the Bombing of Auschwitz: First Deliberations, January 1941". Holocaust and Genocide Studies 15.1: 70–85.
• White, Joseph Robert (2002). "Target auschwitz: Historical and hypothetical German responses to allied attack". Holocaust and Genocide Studies 16.1: 54–76.
• Wyman, David S. (1984). The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945. New York: Pantheon Books. 

Pranala luar

• "The Auschwitz Bombing Controversy in Context" – kuliah online oleh Dr. David Silberklang dari Yad Vashem
• "Why didn't the Allies bomb Auschwitz?" BBC News, 23 January 2005