Allies ignored extermination of the Jews, claims Vatican
The Vatican has accused Britain and the U.S. of complicity in the Nazi extermination of Jews.
It claims the Allies deliberately did nothing to either rescue Jews or destroy the death camps.
An article in L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, says Allied governments knew the Nazis were planning to exterminate the Jews as early as 1942.
But instead of bombing the concentration camps and the railways supplying them, they reacted by first suppressing eye-witness reports and then claiming they were exaggerated.
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It claims the Allies deliberately did nothing to either rescue Jews or destroy the death camps.
An article in L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, says Allied governments knew the Nazis were planning to exterminate the Jews as early as 1942.
But instead of bombing the concentration camps and the railways supplying them, they reacted by first suppressing eye-witness reports and then claiming they were exaggerated.