Word: dawidowicz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's more, even after 30 years of reviewing the record, historians don't agree on whether Auschwitz should have been bombed in the first place. Holocaust historian Lucy Dawidowicz, for example, thinks that documents show it was not feasible for the United States to bomb the camp...
...bombing of Auschwitz was a complex issue," Dawidowicz says, citing the need to take into account the risk to the lives of the people in the camp. "If we had gone ahead with the bombing. I'm not at all sure that young people today wouldn't be screaming 'mass murderers,'" she adds...
...Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz disagrees with Dawidowicz's inclination to absolve McCloy. He said that McCloy played a part in the decision, although it may have been small. "When you are studying war criminals [as Dawidowicz does] McCloy's role is minor. Compared to Hitler his role is minor...
...cannot ignore that two fervent watchdogs of Jewish causes--Martin Peretz of The New Republic and Lucy Dawidowicz, author of a book on the bombing of Auschwitz--have said in separate interviews with The Crimson that they do not see McCloy as a clear villain...