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37. There were 2.3 million combat sorties in the period 1941-45.

Sun Jun 21, 2015, 09:08 PM

Jun 2015

And you are saying diverting a few of those 2.3 million "would have prolonged the war"? Towards the end of the war they had ran out of targets to bomb. They could have easily bombed those lines. And bombing them would have deprived the Nazis of a military asset. The people in those camps were being used as forced labor producing military items.

That said the church does not have clean hands in WW II, especially at the end. There was an underground railroad of priests and bishops which helped thousands of Nazis escape Europe.

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