Why would the Allies have been interested in Auschwitz long before the charges of extermination there were leveled?
Auschwitz was located next to a Buna rubber factory that the Nazis were building to convert coal to gasoline. ‘Operation Frantic’ targeted German fuel production facilities for bombing missions. As early as 1943 Auschwitz and Monowitz, the Buna plant, were flown over by Allied photo reconnaissance airplanes in preparation for it being targeted by American bomber planes. The entire area had been photographed over a dozen times by the American army by the end of 1944. Yet, despite this interest in the area, the U.S. government was unable to confirm an extermination of the Jews was taking place.
Auschwitz was located next to a Buna rubber factory that the Nazis were building to convert coal to gasoline. ‘Operation Frantic’ targeted German fuel production facilities for bombing missions. As early as 1943 Auschwitz and Monowitz, the Buna plant, were flown over by Allied photo reconnaissance airplanes in preparation for it being targeted by American bomber planes. The entire area had been photographed over a dozen times by the American army by the end of 1944. Yet, despite this interest in the area, the U.S. government was unable to confirm an extermination of the Jews was taking place.
Auschwitz was located next to a Buna rubber factory that the Nazis were building to convert coal to gasoline. ‘Operation Frantic’ targeted German fuel production facilities for bombing missions. As early as 1943 Auschwitz and Monowitz, the Buna plant, were flown over by Allied photo reconnaissance airplanes in preparation for it being targeted by American bomber planes. The entire area had been photographed over a dozen times by the American army by the end of 1944. Yet, despite this interest in the area, the US government was unable to confirm an extermination of the Jews was taking place.
