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To: robnhood who wrote (7955)	5/11/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

There has been much debate about those things. The failure to take more refugees is a black mark, but the main refugee outflow was before the institution of the extermination camps, and at the beginning of the Einsatzgruppen actions that are generally held to be the beginning of the Holocaust proper, there was sheer incredulity at the sporadic reports that filtered back to Washington, mainly by way of partisans, who had a axe to grind. As for bombing Auschwitz, it was still unclear to the Allies how extensive the policy of extermination was, and there was a reluctance to kill inmates. Also, the German response to the end- game of the war was wholly unanticipated: instead of diverting trains and other supplies to the war effort, they diverted trains and supplies to the finish the job of extermination! By the time that Jewish groups were begging that the camps be bombed, the war was nearly over, and the Allies were reluctant to divert anything from the war effort...