“Many students at Wisconsin have little, if any knowledge about the Holocaust.” I like to think that the majority of UW students ARE well informed on the Holocaust. We’re a smart bunch for the most part - but like with all things in life, it takes a few rotten eggs to ruin the bunch. I do agree though, this will soon pass.

This is stupid! Ten years ago, the ad would have been flat-out rejected. What if someone tried to place an ad advocating that gays be institutionalized, or an ad that advocated invading Canada? OK, invading Canada might be a good idea, since they burned down our White House (kidding). I’m still not convinced that a predominantly liberal campus like UW-Madison would even tolerate something like this. Why are Jews the only exception when it comes to fighting prejudice and bigotry? Most liberals still try to claim that their opposition to “Israeli apartheid” is not an anti-Jewish movement, yet I hear liberals bashing Jews left and right all over the place. Sorry, but I’m not buying the liberal excuse for this kind of hatred.

Holocaust education in primary and high school is HUGE. Proportionally, the schools I grew up attending focused more on the Holocaust and WWII than any other time in History. Pretty much everyone else I know had very similar curriculums. The Holocaust is very much cemented in most UW students brains before they arrive on campus. The so called Holocaust ‘deniers’ are a VERY small minority. While I believe the Jewish community should respond to these hateful individuals, they are NOT representative of the UW student body. ‘Anti-Semite’ comments about AEPi are completely different from those of Holocaust deniers. I think the majority of people who are ‘anti-semite’ are really more ‘anti-East Coast’ — it’s more of a regional conflict than a religious/ethnic conflict. They have not really been exposed to lifestyles outside the midwest and immediately judge people who they view as ‘rich’ and ‘snobby’ (for the record, I don’t have any animosity — many of my good friends are just that ‘type’). Yet I don’t think these same people would deny the Holocaust happened nor deny how horrible it was for Humanity. The logic that the Herald is anti-semitic in running this ad is a fallacy. I stand by the Herald exercising the First Amendment in publishing this disgusting ad (along with the strip club ad…). Jonah, I wish you and Hillel a lot of look at the awareness event tomorrow, not that you’ll need it. I think you’ll have a pretty receptive crowd, since most UW students are definitely aware — and very sympathetic — to the Holocaust.

I would love to see the various organizations and interests of UW come together for a broader genocide awareness campaign. While the Holocaust was most certainly an atrocity, it is just one of many genocides. Changing it up and also spreading awareness about genocides such as Armenia or Cambodia is just as important (and perhaps more pressing, since they are much less publicized). Or how about Sudan — a genocide that is going on right now? I agree that we must “never forget”, but perhaps focusing ALL of our energies on the past takes our energy away from what’s going on right now. Let’s step up awareness beyond just the Holocaust to show people that atrocities, unfortunately, are just as rampant today as they were during WWII.

Um, Jonah, don’t you work for the BH?

I’m not an anti-Semite. My grandfather, who I love very much, was a Jewish refugee from Eastern Europe in the 1920s and Jewish traditions are still very much a part of my family. Just having to preface ANY criticism of Israel or free speech advocacy (e.g. this ridiculously over-analyzed Holocaust non-issue) like that to prevent, or at least inhibit, accusations of anti-Semitism is absurd. This paranoid victim-hood narrative that shrieks anti-Semitism at the sight of every criticism or contrary arguement, however mild, does a grave disservice to rational discourse. As Eric Alterman pointed out recently http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100315/alterman these sorts of accusations say much more about the accuser than the purported anti-Semite himself. Holocaust denial is not technically anti-Semitic and therefore is not the same a racism and sexism. Denying the Holocaust is essentially calling a lot of people liars, some of them Jews, many of them not. It is revisionist history that usually does have anti-Semitic purposes but is not in itself anti-Semitic. Although I certainly understand how convenient it is to draw that relationship. I thought Smather’s 9/11 comparison was appropriate in the context. What is it exactly you didn’t like or understand? Lastly, you must be delusional if you really believe the vast majority of students on this campus don’t know a whole lot about the Holocaust - last time I checked, 20th century history was still taught in high school. All of us are capable of calling bullshit what it is. Occasional offense is the price one pays for living in a free society, get used to it and stop whining. -SS

BH has a rancid history of supporting Holocaust denial. Recall, serial terrorism-apologist Kyle Szarzinski’s support of the noxious Holocaust denier, Norman Finkelstein. http://badgerherald.com/oped/2007/09/11/israellobbycensors.php

Don’t be naive’, Jonah.

BH provided hate-mongers a stage to spit their anti-Semitic bigotry. That action crossed the line of incitement.

Last Spring, The Diamondback (UMaryland) covered their campus Muslim Student Association hosting of infamous Holocaust denier, Norman Finkelstein, during PassOver. http://www.diamondbackonline.com/commenting-on-a-crisis-1.277458

A month later, the enraged father of one campus students marched into the DC Holocaust museum to gun down innocents. Only the intervention of security guards� one whom died heroically in the line of duty� prevented an awful slaugher.

Responsible journalism should not facilitate Holocaust-denial and anti-Semitic bigotry. BH is inciting violence.

Who even looks at the advertising anyways?

It is embarrassing for our culture and our Euro-ethos that we would revert to oppression and imprisonment for heroic figures like Ernst Zundel and many others who are scientists, engineers, lawyers and professors. Which powerful ethnic group is responsible for the campaign since the 1980s to make it a crime to question the claims of the Holocaust. Is it the Norwegians? Oops! If I tell you the TRUTH, I may go to jail under some hate law.

I wish to express my outrage that the Holocaust, unlike any other historical event, is not subject to critical examination. Furthermore I deplore the fact that many so-called democratic states have laws that criminalize an examination and understanding of the Holocaust. It is my position that the veracity of Holocaust assertions should be determined in the marketplace of scholarly discourse and not in our legislatures bodies and courthouses.

Peace.

Michael Santomauro Editorial Director Call anytime: 917-974-6367 [email protected] Amazon’s: DEBATING THE HOLOCAUST: A New Look At Both Sides by Thomas Dalton

I totally agree with my dog Jonah on this subject. Just because you watched Schindler’s List in your world war two class in high school doesn’t make you an accredited scholar on the subject of the Nazi Holocaust. Free speech is a very important thing. The BH since the 60’s has had a long history of defending people�s rights to free speech. That being said I truly believe that the badger herald would be in the right for allowing an editorial on the subject. Let me state however, an advertisement normally suggests some sort of cooperation with the news paper and the party buying the rights to space in there news. This cooperation constantly flirts with the line of support and blind equality of patrons. An example of where a newspaper can print an advertisement for something they personally don’t officially back is the publishing of an add for a political issue. But it is when the newspaper prints an advertisement for a political group that spreads hateful insensitive FALSE knowledge on a HOLOCAUST still fresh in the minds of our grandparents that any level of cooperation between the advertisement and newspaper is absolutely unacceptable. On the subject of free speech I always applied the situation in question to one of the most famous liberalists (not the same as “liberal”) quote of all time. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”-Voltaire. The BH got lost somewhere between “defending” and “disapproving”. This is normally an easy distinction but it seems that there was a lapse of judgment in allowing dollars coming from a hate group to print the paper in your hands. That being said it was a mistake and I will continue to support the BH so long s the next issue doesn�t have a puppy stompers add.

“�Anti-Semite� comments about AEPi are completely different from those of Holocaust deniers.”

Really? I haven’t been able to tell the difference.

“I think the majority of people who are �anti-semite� are really more �anti-East Coast�”

Then why don’t they just stick with being anti-East Coast and leave religion out of it?

“The logic that the Herald is anti-semitic in running this ad is a fallacy.”

After you spent two sentences proving otherwise?

“Jonah, I wish you and Hillel a lot of look at the awareness event tomorrow…”

Thanks! We Jews need all the look we can get. And even bad look is better than no look at all.

Jonah Braun might want to give fellow UW Madison students a little more credit for their intelligence. Madison is one of the top academic schools in America. Students attending are probably ranked in the top 5% of their high school class. I think these students can figure out for themselves whether Bradley Smith is posting lies and fabrications on his website or truthful data.

I had assumed that holocaust revisionists were people who had been misled when I began researching the holocaust 7 years ago. I certainly did not take them serious.

I was mistaken.

What I found was the revisionist community is painstakingly focused on the truth in holocaust research.

The truth is not hard to find. For example, the ground at Treblinka ( Poland) either holds the remains of 870,000 bodies as Holocaust believers say, or the ground does not, as revisionists assert.

Perhaps a team of holocaust historians from America could scan the grounds with GPR ( ground penetrating radar) and let the world know what they find.

The curator of the Auschwitz museum has already admitted to the world that the building shown to and represented as a gas chamber to the public, was rebuilt in 1948. If that is not deception, I don’t know what is.

Allow me to give an example to show how illogical the contemporary holocaust story is. Imagine Canada, Mexico, and the USA were under the control of an America dictator. Imagine this dictator decided all Irish persons needed to be gassed or killed. Would it make sense to establish 6 camps in Newfoundland ( 3 of the camps being less than 10 acres in size ) and have all these persons with Irish ancestry transported to that remote location by train, and then gassed in some makeshift old building? It would not be carried out like that.

If you take the time to listen to the testimony of self identified eyewitnesses, you will see their stories make no sense.
Abram Bomba is a self identified eyewitness to the alleged Treblinka gassings. He says he was a barber who gave men and women a haircut before they were gassed.

In a 12X 14 square foot room, he says 16 barbers would cut the hair of the detainees about to be gassed. There would be 140 detainees in one room, roughly 168 square feet.

After the haircut, the barbers left for 2 minutes while the people got gassed, and then in a few minutes all the bodies were removed and another gassing of hundreds took place.

Except, that scenario is impossible.

The friend to revisionism will always be science. Science says 870,000 bodies cannot just vanish. Science says if you walk into a room full of cyanide, you will die. Experts say these rooms would need to be aired for 24 hours or longer to be safe for humans to enter)

I suggest the ardent believers begin to examine what the revisionist scholars have to say, and stop the petty name calling, which is seen by most as an attempt to silence debate, silence research and silence the truth.

For the record I am not a part of any group, nor have I been in the past.

Hey Badger Herald, I’m a little curious. There are at least half a dozen other local newspapers here in Madison. Do you think they might have printed the ad? Do you think maybe they would have faced the same fallout if they did? Did you honestly think that because you are the Badger Herald that you could print the ad and not catch any flack over it? What makes you so immune from criticism?

The reality of anti-Semitism and its shadowy place in society is the very reason that these kinds of actions must be placed at the forefront of the conflict. Throught history, anti-Semitism has moved from state-supported to culturally accepted to present day, where we are global citizens living in completely different cultures with varied opinions on the issure of anti-Semitism. One would expect that informed citizens in America would know to reject outright any insinuations of group hatred and unfounded religious prejudice. However, we do live in a world where, everyday, other cultures clamor for the death of Jews and Israeli citizens. And while it is certainly true that there is a difference between an inability to understand “east coast culture” and anti-Semitism, now is not the time to nitpick and excuse this kind of behavior. When Holocaust deniers claim that the mass murder of 12 million people, 6 million of them Jewish, never happened, this is not “anti-East coast”. It is anti-Semitism, plain and simple, and it should not be tolerated nor given tacit credibility. The same can be said for thousands of other instances, because when people march through the streets of Ramallah and Gaza City and Tehran screaming for death unto Israelis and the forcing of Jews into the Mediterranean, that is not just “anti-Israeli” sentiment, it’s a clarion call for all who hate, and it most definitely is anti-Semitism.

And so, when an instance such as this creates strife on an educated campus like our own, we must overcome the differences of opinion and battle hatred together. I do not believe that this campus in uninformed, nor that they are looking for ways around blatant anti-Semitism, but the best way to triumph over intolerance is to show those watching that we do know wrong from right, and that intolerance anywhere is an insult to justice anywhere.

Let these events serve as a reminder that hatred exists and that we must do all that we can to eradicate these heinous views, and let us all do our best to create a world where, God willing, we won’t need to hurl insults on the school newspaper’s message board.

“Instead of igniting a debate focused on the validity of Smathers� statements, the Herald has turned into a place where Holocaust deniers can influence a young audience that � unfortunately � has yet to form their own opinions.”

I honestly believe that overwhelming majority of the Herald’s readers have already formed their own opinions on the Holocaust (e.g. IT HAPPENED). I don’t think that a “young audience” will have difficulty dismissing such blatant slander as this. In middle school and high school I was worried about DESENSITIZATION toward the Holocaust because we were educated on it almost every single year. I don’t think you are giving students enough credit, it takes a lot for someone to dismiss mounds and mounds and mounds of evidence pointing to the the fact that, yes, the Holocaust did happen.

The Jewish communities response here at Madison has, in my opinion, been an overreaction. Why even respond to a provocation artist like Bradley Smith? And if this has anything to do with comments like those on the AEPi article then you are, in fact, having a holocaust rally at the behest of internet Trolls.

“Madison is one of the top academic schools in America.”

By whose standards? Hey, I could go to a junior college in a small town and find students smarter than the ones here. Try running the ad in a campus newspaper at a college in a small town and see how fast you get chased out of town.

Jason Smathers just shot himself in the foot. By calling attention and giving legitimacy to an ad that was hard to notice in the first place, he hoped to spark a controversy that would enhance the BH’s readership. If the backlash from the ad’s acceptance turns into outright rejection of the BH, he has certainly done his paper a disservice.

Oops, almost forgot the political hit pieces on faculty and letting a freshman who knew nothing about the underlying subject write something on a complex First Amendment & legal issue (CCAP open records).

Oh, and using the paper to stir up a lynch mob against the Nitty Gritty for its owner’s political activities. That was a high water mark of quality journalism as well.

People who elect to believe 6,000,000 jews were gassed in gas chambers in the Second World War have every right to that belief.

Based on 7 years of research, I do not believe that 6,000,000 Jews were gassed at the hands of Hitler. I do believe as many as 300,000 Jews may have died in concentration camps during World War 2, along with millions of others.

I do think it is important to have an open mind on this matter, and if there was some forensic evidence that I could review that established that 6,000,000 Jewish persons were gassed by the Germans I am interested in seeing it.

I am not interested in hearing people, who are selling a book, talk about their personal encounter with Dr. Mengele.

Why is it as soon as the discussion turns to the details of this event, out come the insults.

I think we can all agree the destruction of 12,000,000 people is hard to fathom, but if it did take place, there must be massive burial pits or graves somewhere and records to support millions of bodies that were cremated.

Fortunately, there are survivors who have told us EXACTLY where these burial pits are.

No need to dig up anything, just use GPR units to scan the ground.

There is no anti-Semitism involved in a forensic investigation into this matter.

To the contrary, it makes me think the persons who most object to a forensic investigation might be fearful of the results.

One thing about these Holocaust deniers that doesn’t add up. They’re constantly denying that a whole 6 million Jews were murdered, but I don’t hear them denying how many homosexuals, communists, trade unionists, Catholics, etc., were murdered. They only question the fate of the Jewish victims. Why the selectivity? What is it about these other groups that Holocaust deniers don’t even want to talk about what happened to them? Anyone?

Jason Smathers has opened up debate on a topic that
holocaust believers insist must not be debated.

Like it or not, historical revisionism is a part of history.

The more people insist this one chapter of WW2 be closed for good, the more it will prompt inquiry.

I have discusssed this topic with well over 500 highly educated teachers, scholars, judges, lawyers, doctors, and even writers during the past 5-6 years and nearly all of them have agreed with my thesis that the traditional holocaust story, makes absolutely no sense.

President Ronald Reagan used to say,trust but verify.

If holocaust believers want others to trust their version, let the historians, revisionists and scholars verify the forensic evidence! You can’t have it both ways.

I never heard of any Catholics claiming they had relatives gassed in Auschwitz. Saint Edith Stein was a nun who died from Typhus. Father Maximillian Kolbe died from starvation.

I have only recently become aware of this debate, and I do have a few comments. I’d like to suggest that the first amendment argument is a little ingenuous. Let’s have a little honest here for a second: How long would the following ad stay online? “The slavery question: the power of taboo” or try this one: “the myth of japanese internment camps- why can we not discuss both sides of the issue” How about “the question of native americans…” I think you see where I’m going with this. The discourse of israeli palestinian conflict in the liberal left has moved (very often with good reason) towards denouncement of the Israeli victimization stance. Sadly, anti-Semites actually do occasionally insinuate themselves into this discourse. They exchange the words “jew” for “zionist” but are otherwise making the same blood libels that have haunted jews in the west since the first crusade. The reason the holocaust is unique among atrocities perpetuated by mankind is not in the numbers killed, the horrendous efficiency in the execution of the murders, or the fact that it was based on a systematic application of racist ideology that has taken over one of the great western civilizations for more than a decade. It is because the holocaust is often perceived as part of an unending cycle of violence against jews in the west. The most extreme, to be sure, but only one of many. Jews see the denial of the holocaust as the harbinger of its eventual justification, and possibly its repetition. The people making the arguments are different - now it’s Hamas spokespeople and Irani presidents � but the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are still a popular source. Most disturbing is the insinuation, presented in the comments above occasionally, that the mistreatment of the palestinians by Israelis through the occupation, jews are really bringing righteous anger on themselves. One needs a great deal of care in applying the first amendment: the nazi party used democratic principles fully in its quest for political growth. It was individual decisions made by newspaper editors and publishers which allowed them to spread their bile.

Dear Badger Herald,

I’ll pay you $200 to not talk about Jewish stuff for 1 week. Seriously.

What makes the Holocaust unique is that one group of non citizens ( Jews) are alleging they were the victims of a planned genocide by a second group of non citizens ( Nazi’s) on land that is not part of America.

It is not an American problem.

However, American taxpayers have built and paid for more than 150 holocaust museums across the nation.

Yet, when those American taxpayers who seek to investigate the accuracy of holocaust claims, they are threatened with physical violence, often they are beaten and always harassed. How do you spell hate?

It leads the average bystander to ask- what is it they are trying to cover up.

To me it is very simple. The truth. I am convinced if the truth of this period were ever made known to the public, the flow of reparations would end. Hence the absolute determination to prevent a full and impartial investigation is ever carried out.

It is a fact that the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews. They weren’t all murdered in the camps, but they were murdered. The Nazis also had mobile killing units that roamed European countries that they occupied. Also, like 3:21PM, I’m interested in knowing why Holocaust deniers are questioning the number of Jews who were murdered and not the numbers of other groups that were targeted, like wilhelm denying that Catholics were targeted at all.

wilhelm, I have a strong suspicion that you are actually a liberal. Care to confirm or deny?

The gist of Mr. Braun’s letter, and some commenters’ feelings, is that the continuance of the advert is dangerous because many readers in the UW community are “young” and have “yet to form their own opinions”.

Sold! The college experience is a perfect venue for people to form their opinions. And that fire is fueled by exposure. Besides, how can anyone be sure that the Holocaust did in fact take place? Maybe I should buy ad space and link to some proof. Would that be somehow more valid than Smith’s ad?

What I don’t understand is, even Hilberg admitted no documents relating to murder have ever been found. We all know that no physical evidence has ever been produced. So, why does everyone believe it? I am sure this state mandated ‘education/brainwashing’ has something to do with it.

Get’em while they’re young!

This really should have stated that Jonah Braun works (worked?) for The Badger Herald.

Suppose it was alleged that the Americans exterminated Japanese in the camps in Ca. by placing them in a closed room, and tossing in Raid aerosol bombs bought at the local Home Depot.

Idiotic, right?

Yet, that is how we are told the Nazis exterminated six million Jews, with Zyklon-B, a commercial insecticide that was used all over Europe. It came in small tin cans, about the size of a Raid aerosol bomb. Zyklon-B had a special scent added for safety purposes. It was used to kill lice in the camps to prevent the spread of tyhpus. The Nazis, according to the holocaust, put it to dual use, using it to exterminate the Jews. The exalt product. As if the US used Raid bombs from Home Depot the exterminate the Japanese.

Idiotic, right?

hahaha..how can you deny that there is no documents or no evidence. Have you even been to germany? Have you visited the concentration camps? I have. Theres literally thousands of pictures/videos of jews being killed and put into graves/pits. Are the germans in on the cover up of not killing jews? I don’t think so. they are actually quite ashamed.

“Typhus and lice were some of the biggest problems that Nazis chose to exacerbate by putting their prisoners in overcrowded ghettos and bunkers with almost no food, water, access to bathrooms, no showers, etc. ”

This is 100% false.

The Red Cross made regular inspections to Auschwitz. They reported clean and sanitary conditions. Detainees had access to dentists, doctors and a range of other activities such as a library ( 40,000 volumes), chapel, swimming pool, soceer field, theatre, cantina, bakery, 12 kitchens and a set of classrooms for children as well as several orchestras. Many couples were married in Auschwitz and 3000 babies were born there. I guess those facts somehow get left off the TV propoganda.

As to the over crowding, there certainly existed over crowded camps in 1945. Near the end of the war the retreating Germans moved camp detainees further west. It remained a tolerable situation.

What made life horrible for camp detainees was the fact Americans were bombing the rail lines leading to Auschwitz and had cut off all food supplies. This led to starvation among most of the camp population, and provided a PR coup for Gen Eisenhower when he marched into the camps with a hollywood script writer as his side. Thus he could provide americans back home with proof, living proof of how evil the Nazi’s were.

Americans could see the TV pictures or photos in LIFE magazine. So there you have it, proof of the most evil man on earth who had carried out a policy of starvation towards these innocent camp detainees. Nothing to discuss!

except the man’s name is FDR, not Adolf.

Martin Broszat, former director of the German Institute for Contemporary History, admitted that the homicidal gas chambers alleged to have been found and �proven� as such by the Americans and British were malicious fabrications. In 1960, he admitted in Die Zeit: �Neither in Dachau nor in Bergen Belsen nor in Buchenwald were jews or other prisoners gassed.�

• When American and British forces overran western and central Germany in the spring of 1945, they were followed by troops charged with discovering and securing any evidence of German war crimes. Among them was Dr. Charles Larson, one of America’s leading forensic pathologists, who was assigned to the U.S. Army�s Judge Advocate General�s Department. As part of a U.S. War Crimes Investigation Team, Dr. Larson performed autopsies at Dachau and some twenty other German camps, examining on some days more than 100 corpses. Dr. Larson admitted that the homicidal gas chambers alleged to have been found and �proven� as such by the Americans and British were malicious fabrications. In 1980, he admitted in The Wichita Eagle: �Never was a case of death by poison gas uncovered.�

“Many couples were married in Auschwitz and 3000 babies were born there. I guess those facts somehow get left off the TV propoganda.”

Wow. This is just getting absurd. After looking through about 40 articles, over the past day, I can only come to the conclusion that you are illiterate. Babies were not born at Auschwitz, they were murdered just like everybody else.

The closest thing they had to a doctor was Mengele, who would perform experiments on Jews and Romani children. After they died he would dissect their bodies. Very humanitarian.

“Near the end of the war the retreating Germans moved camp detainees further west. It remained a tolerable situation.”

You’re right. They were called “Death Marches,” where, from the 60,000 remaining prisoners at Auschwitz alone, 15,000 people died.

“Americans could see the TV pictures or photos in LIFE magazine.”

Have you heard of Theresienstadt? The Nazi regime’s puppet camp used to show the Red Cross and the rest of the world how “nice” they were to the Jews.

Get a clue man, you have absolutely no idea of what you’re talking about. Frankly, it’s embarrassing.

I doubt that anyone leaving anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying remarks is actually a student. You have to be incredibly bigoted and closed-minded to believe that pathetic, hateful nonsense. I like to think that the admissions process weeds out most of those people. So whoever’s here from Smith’s message boards - how about you go back to the shit-hole you came from and continue circle-jerking your neo-Nazi buddies?

BADGER HERALD IS A RAY OF SUNSHINE IN THE DARKNESS AT MADISON.

The protests against the Badger Herald are a sad example of narrow-mindedness and intolerance on some campuses. These protests, not the ad, are the real stain on the community.

The Badger Herald did the right thing by running the ad about the holocaust debate site (CODOH).

A university is supposed to be a center of learning and knowledge. Students should be exposed to multiple points of view about different topics. It is shocking that students now are protesting FOR intolerance and repression. If they do not agree with revisionists, they do not have to go their websites, but to prevent other students from that option is intolerance and narrow-mindedness.

The Badger Herald, by standing tall for tolerance and free speech, has shown itself to be ray of sunshine. It should continue to run such ads in the future.

It’s claimed that throughout 1944 Germans kept the murders and cremations of 3,000 a day at Auschwitz-Birkenau secret from surrounding villagers through high fences and a 2/3 mile wide no-entry zone, so the Allies didn’t know until 2 escapees told their stories in August, 1944. But if thousands a day were being murdered, the Allies would have known about them, as Birkenau was located in the center of a heavily populated flat river valley surrounded by farms, roads, villages, and large towns, without a no-entry zone, and only one see-through wire fence 10 feet from the supposed gas chambers where thousands of Poles a day would have heard cries and seen the victims and Britain and America would have been told about the mass murders.

Following this argument, British, American, and Soviet air-forces, who had photographed the camps from the air and could have bombed the rail-lines, rail-bridges, and large Cremation buildings, from April to December, 1944, didn�t drop any bombs on the camps or railway lines even though camps were over-flown many times to bomb adjacent industrial buildings such as at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where bombs were released from American bombers directly over the large Cremation buildings to land on the synthetic-rubber and chemical complex 3 miles (5 kms) east, but absolutely no bombs were dropped on or anywhere near Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The only possible reason America did not bomb the Auschwitz Cremation buildings and railway lines in 1944 was their research concluded prisoners were not being murdered or hurt in the visible camps.

Can anyone offer another explanation why America didn’t bomb Auschwitz or the surrounding rail lines?