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    Britain knew something of the Nazi slaughter of the Jews as early as 1941

    'Bletchley Park and the famous Enigma code-breaking machine were responsible for cracking some of Nazi Germany's most secret communications. However, deciphered radio messages revealing the onset of the Holocaust - the 'crime without a name', as Winston Churchill called it - could not be made public for fear that they would seriously compromise the effectiveness of Bletchley Park's vital work during World War II.'

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5114.shtml

    Should the British have done more with this knowledge?

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    Of course not. If they had publicly displayed knowledge of how to break the Enigma machine, as would be required for any public release on this subject, then the Germans would have developed a new machine and the Allied war effort would subsequently be significantly weakened. Besides, the British were too busy trying to protect their own Jews from getting baked. They didn't have much of an opportunity to worry about other countries' Jews till 1944.

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    We had a strong CP where my parents lived, and they knew all about the camps. It didn't suit the powers-that-were at the time to go into the matter till they'd won.


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    Quote Quote by: iolo View Post
    We had a strong CP where my parents lived, and
    they knew all about the camps.
    It didn't suit the powers-that-were at the time
    to go into the matter till they'd won.
    And what was left to negotiate?

    Grandpa h.

    Post by post, building his arguments by smashing a couple of theirs -- for America.

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    Quote Quote by: grandpa View Post
    And what was left to negotiate?

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    Nothing - they could keep the Displaced Persons out, so that they had to go to 'Israel' and replicate what had happened to them, if only in a small way.


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