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willing or able to do in the five years of Hitler’s oppositionless administration of the final solution.

There is one last point 1 would like to make about how short-sighted—from a military standpoint—the Allied governments were in ignoring the plight of the Jews. Since, as Laqueur puts it, the victims-to-be didn’t believe their fate to-be, the Nazi executioners had little difficulty in herding their several million victims into the extermination camps. Had the Allies broadcast, by radio or leaflet, day after day, warnings to the Jews as to what was in store for them—the facts were available in great detail—there would have been resistance, sufficient at least to compel diversion of large numbers of German troops and equipment from the battlefront to quell uprisings and administer the camps. But the Allies did nothing. And so the crowd walked on laughing and chatting along the road near the thicket.

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willing or able to do in the five years of Hitler’s oppositionless administration of the final solution.

There is one last point 1 would like to make about how short-sighted—from a military standpoint—the Allied governments were in ignoring the plight of the Jews. Since, as Laqueur puts it, the victims-to-be didn’t believe their fate to-be, the Nazi executioners had little difficulty in herding their several million victims into the extermination camps. Had the Allies broadcast, by radio or leaflet, day after day, warnings to the Jews as to what was in store for them—the facts were available in great detail—there would have been resistance, sufficient at least to compel diversion of large numbers of German troops and equipment from the battlefront to quell uprisings and administer the camps. But the Allies did nothing. And so the crowd walked on laughing and chatting along the road near the thicket.