stalin referred to the massacre of the jews just as infrequently as pope pius xii which is to say they each gave one speech in the course of the second world war that had anything to do with what was happening to the jews. stalin on november 7th, 941, while the germans were hurtling toward moscow spoke about pogroms. the pope in december of 194 2k, i believe, gave a christmas sermon in which he declared how sad it was that many people in europe were dying because of their race. he didn't even mention the word jew. there's a parallel kind of indifference here. when the soviet armies got within reach of auschwitz in the summer of 1944, they were 160 kilometers away. even allowing for the fact that soviet use of air power was tactical rather than sending fleets of bombers over cities, mostly, that would have been a moment that they could have struck the camp. finish the nkvd, the equivalent to have kgb, knew about the camp and so forth, but that information did not filter down to the troops on the line. it was never a priority to liberate auschwitz. and there was, if the united states and

the massacre of the jews, just as infrequently as pope pius xii, they gave one speech in the course of the second world war that had to do with what was happening to jews. on november 7, 1941, when hurtling toward moscow, spoke about programs. the pope in december 1942, a christmas sermon, how sad it was people in europe were dying because of their race, didn't engine the word jew. there is a parallel kind of indifference here. when the soviet armies got within reach of auschwitz in the summer of 1944, 160 miles a day, allowing for the fact that soviet use of air power is mostly tactical and used to support infantry advances rather than sending bombers over cities, that would be a moment they could have struck the camp, the equivalent of the kgb new about the camp and so forth but that information did not filter to the troops on the line, to liberate auschwitz. if the united states and britain were willing to pressure the soviets, no sign he wouldn't achieve success. he tried to persuade the soviets, to send bombers from britain to receive the warsaw uprising of 1944, not the jewish, t