The Nazi Extermination Camps and the Ally to the East: Could the Red Army and Air Force Have Stopped or Slowed the Final Solution?

@article{Herf2003TheNE,  title={The Nazi Extermination Camps and the Ally to the East: Could the Red Army and Air Force Have Stopped or Slowed the Final Solution?},  author={Jeffrey Herf},  journal={Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History},  year={2003},  volume={4},  pages={913 - 930},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:159958616}}
  • J. Herf
  • Published14 November 2003
  • History, Political Science
  • Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
In her now standard work on the history of the Holocaust, the Israeli historian Leni Yahil asked why official recognition of the ongoing mass murder did not lead to rescue and cessation of the killings. “Why,” she asked, “were the Nazis able to continue the implementation of the final solution of the problem of European Jewry until the end of the war almost without impediment?” During the war and in Anglo-American scholarly and public discourse about it afterward, the phrase “the Allies” came… 

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