Data Say Allies Knew of Auschwitz Plan
From Times Wire Reports
Newly released World War II intelligence intercepts reveal that timely warning was available to Allied leaders that Nazi occupiers planned to deport the Jews of Rome to Auschwitz in October 1943. Allied leaders did not say a word. The British intercepts of Nazi communications between Berlin and Rome were almost certainly available days in advance, said professor Timothy Naftali of the University of Virginia, who reviewed the previously classified data at the National Archives in Washington.
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