Why We Watched

In "Why We Watched", the distinguished historian, Theodore Hamerow argues that if just one country had opened its doors to Germany's persecuted Jews in the 1930s and if the Allies had attempted even one bombing of an extermination camp, the Holocaust would have been markedly different. He suggests that Allied indifference allowed the Nazis to imprison and then murder six million Jews because each of the Allied nations had their own version of the Jewish Question - their own type of anti-Semitism - which may not have been as crude and as virulent as that in Germany itself but was disastrous nevertheless. In this provocative book, Hamerow reveals how the unthinkable happened.