History Revealed

LETTERS

A TROUBLED HISTORY

In Daniel Todman’s recent Q&A on the home front (Christmas, 2020) he states that “the idea of the war being a struggle to save Europe’s Jews wasn’t really there”. Whoever thought the war was about the Jews? No one cared enough to wage war to protect Jews!

The piece also claims that there was little sympathy when news of the concentration camps came, perhaps because they were found by the Soviets, not the British. But what about Bergen-Belsen? What about the US discoveries of Buchenwald, Dachau and Mauthausen? Pathé News showed footage of the camps in

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