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MADem

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5. It's not like FDR had drones. Bombing was not a terribly accurate enterprise back in those days.

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Mon Apr 2, 2012, 01:45 AM

Apr 2012

He could well have hit the prisoners and spared the Nazis.

Then, the only issue post-war would be who killed one's ancestors, friend or foe?

I hesitate to second guess in that instance.

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U.S. Holocaust Museum refutes FDR supporters' defense of failure to bomb Auschwitz [View all] ellisonz Jan 2012 OP

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It's not like FDR had drones. Bombing was not a terribly accurate enterprise back in those days. MADem Apr 2012 #5