Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume III
- 1 The Jewish World under Nazi Impact, 1930–1939
- 2 The Churches and the Holocaust
- 3 Lost In-between: Refugee Migration during the Holocaust
- 4 Jewish Forced Labor: From Coerced Segregated Deployment to Slave Labor, 1938–1945
- 5 “To Prevent Something Worse”: Strategies, Constraints, and Choices Made by the Jewish Councils in Western Europe
- 6 Jewish Councils and Jewish Ghetto Police in Eastern Europe
- 7 Diaries and Chronicles
- 8 Jewish Experiences of Segregation and Ghettoization
- 9 Religious Practice during the Holocaust
- 10 Cultural Activity in the Holocaust
- 11 Facing the Unfathomable: Victims’ Reactions to the Deportations to Death Camps
- 12 Jews in Concentration Camps, 1933–1945
- 13 Gray Zones and Sonderkommandos: Power and Morality in Auschwitz–Birkenau and Other National Socialist Concentration Camps
- 14 Hiding and Passing as Non-Jews in Poland, 1942–1945
- 15 Surviving in the Soviet Union
- 16 Uprisings and Mass Escapes in Ghettos and Camps
- 17 Jews in Armed Resistance Movements and Partisan Units
- 18 Gender and Jewish Experience during the Holocaust
- 19 Sexual Exploitation and Violence during the Holocaust
- 20 The Jewish Family during the Holocaust
- 21 Jewish Children’s Experiences during the Holocaust
- 22 Mixed Race, Mixed Marriage, and Jewish Christians
- 23 Mentally and Physically Disabled Persons as Victims of Nazism
- 24 Homosexuals
- 25 Roma
- 26 Slavs and Soviet POWs
- 27 Help and Rescue in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland
- 28 Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Germany and Nazi-Occupied Western Europe, 1941–1945
- 29 International Responses to the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1939–1945
- 30 The Allies and the Holocaust
- Index
- References
30 - The Allies and the Holocaust
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume III
- 1 The Jewish World under Nazi Impact, 1930–1939
- 2 The Churches and the Holocaust
- 3 Lost In-between: Refugee Migration during the Holocaust
- 4 Jewish Forced Labor: From Coerced Segregated Deployment to Slave Labor, 1938–1945
- 5 “To Prevent Something Worse”: Strategies, Constraints, and Choices Made by the Jewish Councils in Western Europe
- 6 Jewish Councils and Jewish Ghetto Police in Eastern Europe
- 7 Diaries and Chronicles
- 8 Jewish Experiences of Segregation and Ghettoization
- 9 Religious Practice during the Holocaust
- 10 Cultural Activity in the Holocaust
- 11 Facing the Unfathomable: Victims’ Reactions to the Deportations to Death Camps
- 12 Jews in Concentration Camps, 1933–1945
- 13 Gray Zones and Sonderkommandos: Power and Morality in Auschwitz–Birkenau and Other National Socialist Concentration Camps
- 14 Hiding and Passing as Non-Jews in Poland, 1942–1945
- 15 Surviving in the Soviet Union
- 16 Uprisings and Mass Escapes in Ghettos and Camps
- 17 Jews in Armed Resistance Movements and Partisan Units
- 18 Gender and Jewish Experience during the Holocaust
- 19 Sexual Exploitation and Violence during the Holocaust
- 20 The Jewish Family during the Holocaust
- 21 Jewish Children’s Experiences during the Holocaust
- 22 Mixed Race, Mixed Marriage, and Jewish Christians
- 23 Mentally and Physically Disabled Persons as Victims of Nazism
- 24 Homosexuals
- 25 Roma
- 26 Slavs and Soviet POWs
- 27 Help and Rescue in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland
- 28 Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Germany and Nazi-Occupied Western Europe, 1941–1945
- 29 International Responses to the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1939–1945
- 30 The Allies and the Holocaust
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter focuses on policies of the Allies from 1941 until 1945. Responding to the news about the mass extermination of the Jews, individuals and Jewish organizations lobbied for making declarations denouncing Nazi atrocities and taking diplomatic and political measures. This chapter shows the complexity of Allied attitudes, logistical and political considerations, actions, and inactions with regard to the fate of the Jews in Europe. In particular, it concerns the response to the destruction of Hungarian Jewry, the rescue initiatives and role of Roul Wallenberg, and the refusal to bomb Auschwitz.
Keywords
StalinChurchillFDRbombing of Auschwitzmilitary intelligenceGerhart RiegnerWorld Jewish CongressWar Refugee BoardRaoul WallenbergCarl LutzBreckinridge LongHenry MorgenthauJohn Pehleunconditional surrenderEichmannMiklόs HorthyHungarian JewsForeign OfficeState DepartmentJan KarskiPolish Government in Exile
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- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 498 - 513Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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