Title Auschwitz, the allies and censorship of the Holocaust / Michael Fleming

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Auschwitz -- an overview; News from occupied Poland; Sources; Terminology; 2 Censorship, self-censorship and the discursive environment; The discursive environment; Reporting news about Jews in Britain; The Ministry of Information and the Political Warfare Executive; British intelligence and the Foreign Office; UK-US censorship liaison; 3 The Polish Government in Exile in London; The Bund report: May-July 1942; The UN declaration: November-December 1942; Geopolitics and controlling the Polish press 4 Intelligence about Auschwitz: November 1940-February 1943Early news of the camp; Disjuncture, delay and suppression (August 1942-February 1943); Jan Karski: informant about Auschwitz?; From Palestine to the president; Concentration camps: Raczyński letter to Eden (20 January 1943); 5 British suppression of news of Auschwitz: March 1943-June/July 1944; Reports from Stefan Rowecki and Jan Stanisław Jankowski (4 and 12 March 1943); Broadcast on the BBC (11 April 1943); The Segieda-Salski report (18 April 1943); A report handed to a Foreign Office official (18 May 1943) Information received in the summer of 1943Reading between the lines: The Black Book of Polish Jewry; Camp of Death; Jan Nowak-Jeziorański; The distribution of reports written in summer 1943 (December 1943-April 1944); Józef Cyrankiewicz'sreport (May-June 1944); 6 Reassessing the significance of the Vrba-Wetzler report; Anti-Semitism in the Polish Army; The Vrba-Wetzler report; Calls to bomb the camp; 7 Conclusion; Information about Auschwitz; Censorship and Polish-Jewish relations; Liberal assimilationism and British anti-Semitism; Cartographies of inclusion and exclusion Appendix I Information about Auschwitz to reach the West, November 1942-June 1944Appendix II Archives and historians; Notes; 1 Introduction; 2 Censorship, self-censorship and the discursive environment; 3 The Polish Government in Exile in London; 4 Intelligence about Auschwitz: November 1940February 1943; 5 British suppression of news of Auschwitz: March 1943June/July 1944; 6 Reassessing the significance of the VrbaWetzler report; 7 Conclusion; Appendix II; Bibliography; Index Summary "What was the extent of allied knowledge regarding the mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz during the Second World War? The question is one which continues to prompt heated historical debate, and Michael Fleming's important new book offers a definitive account of just how much the Allies knew. By tracking Polish and other reports about Auschwitz from their source, and surveying how knowledge was gathered, controlled and distributed to different audiences, the book examines the extent to which information about the camp was passed on to the British and American authorities, and how the dissemination of this knowledge was limited by propaganda and information agencies in the West. In a fascinating new study, the author reveals that the Allies had extensive knowledge of the mass killing of Jews at Auschwitz much earlier than previously thought; but the publicising of this information was actively discouraged in Britain and the US"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-396) and index Notes Print version record Subject Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Censorship SUBJECT Auschwitz (Concentration camp) fast Konzentrationslager Auschwitz gnd Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Censorship Genocide -- Censorship -- Great Britain Genocide -- Censorship -- United States Genocide -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain Genocide -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Atrocities Censorship Genocide -- Moral and ethical aspects Jews Alliierte Weltkrieg 1939-1945 Judenvernichtung Förintelsen. Censur. Förintelsen -- etik och moral. Great Britain United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139911368 1139911368 9781139923101 1139923102 9781107477339 1107477336 9781139907514 1139907514

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