The Day George McGovern Bombed Auschwitz

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The Day George McGovern Bombed Auschwitz: Event on Capitol Hill to Mark 60th Anniversary of Liberation

1/23/2005 1:34:00 PM
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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Rafael Medoff of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 215-635-5622 or [e-mail]

News Advisory:

Former presidential candidate George McGovern will speak for the first time in public about his experiences as a bomber pilot who flew over Auschwitz in 1944, when he appears in an exclusive film interview to be shown on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, January 25.

In the film interview, which was conducted last month at his home in South Dakota, McGovern speaks about why he should have been instructed to bomb the death camps; the Roosevelt administration's knowledge of the Nazi genocide and failure to intervene; and his perspective on the moral obligation of the U.S. to take action against genocide abroad.

The event will take place on Tuesday, January 25, in Room 2200 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Independence Ave. and S. Capitol St.SW, Washington, D.C.

It is co-sponsored by the Congressional Task Force Against Anti-Semitism (which was established by the House International Relations Committee) and The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

The event is being held in conjunction with other international events commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, including a special session of the United Nations on January 24 and a gathering of world leaders at Auschwitz on January 26.

In addition to the McGovern film, the Capitol Hill event will include a discussion of the issue of the Allies' refusal to bomb Auschwitz, with Wyman Institute director Dr. Rafael Medoff, former U.S. Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, and Stuart Erdheim, director of a film about the bombing issue.

For more information, please call Kay King of the House International Relations Committee, at 202-225-6735, or the Wyman Institute at 215-635-5622.

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ABOUT THE WYMAN INSTITUTE: The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, located on the campus of Gratz College (near Philadelphia), is a research and education institute focusing on America's response to the Holocaust. It is named in honor of the eminent historian and author of the 1984 best-seller The Abandonment of the Jews, the most important and influential book concerning the U.S. response to the Nazi genocide.

The Institute's Advisory Committee includes Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Members of Congress, and other luminaries. The Institute's Academic Council includes 50 leading professors of the Holocaust, American history, and Jewish history. The Institute's Arts & Letters Council, chaired by Cynthia Ozick, includes prominent artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers. (A complete list is available upon request.)

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[sabra]

1. Thanks for the post! n/t

[theresistance]

2. This has to be taken with a grain of salt

I'm not an expert in who knew what about the death camps and whether they could have been stopped, but this seems a stretch to now be attacking Roosevelt's "failure to intervene" over it. The Allies only invaded Europe to stop the genocide...This seems rather a controversial issue...It will be interesting what he says about it. Even the story about him flying over Auschwitz seems strange...?

[Radical Activist]

3. So did he bomb auschwitz?

or did he just fly over it and his argument now is that it should have been bombed? The title and content are a little unclear.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

4. The bigger story is Prescott Bush, bankers, and US corps. building Hitler

up by financing his secret army in the 1930s and then financing over half the steel in his war machine.

They even built a steel plant by Auschwitz to use the slave labor.

That's the story that takes apart the myth of White Hat America Saving the World.

Like Saddam, the US gets rich first war-profiteering while builing monsters, letting them destroy a neighborhood, and then playing rescuer to go in and occupy the neighborhood economically.

http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/noon.html
(The Nazi Hydra in America)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=572722

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/listservs/spoons/woodco-greens.archive/woodco-greens.0006