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Old October 16th, 2007, 06:42 PM
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Lightbulb Re: Bombing of Auschwitz

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Originally Posted by Neon Knight View Post

- when i say "bombing the camp", i mean targeting the infamous railway or something like that, not levelling the camp. collateral effects for the inmates wolud be "relatively" limitated, pls consider that birkenau is enourmous.


For this I think a daylight low-level Mosquito attack would have been needed - in late 1943 Bomber Command Main Force had great difficulty targeting the Peenemunde installations which were a relatively good H2S target, and on a moonlit night.....
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