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Originally Posted by Friedrich
Who said by night? The Buna at Monowitz was bombed by the USAF in day-light. There is even a photograph, taken during the mission by a B-17, of Birkenau: you can bloody see the crematoria's chimenney, for God's sake!
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Hmmmm.....did the chimney have
'CREMATORIA' on it ? After all, every complex of industrial buildings in the 1940s seemed to be surrounded by large chimneys with various functions so I doubt the 15th AF or their photographic interpreters may have realised the significance of this one.....
Monowitz was not bombed until Autumn '44 and the gas chambers at Auschwitz were last used on November 8th, so a large-scale attack at that stage would have been more of a 'gesture' than a serious method of preventing the Holocaust. 1943 would have been the optimum time, surely....?