Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Censorship, self-censorship and the discursive environment; 3. The Polish government in exile in London; 4. Intelligence about Auschwitz: November 1940–February 1943; 5. British suppression of news of Auschwitz: March 1943–June/July 1944; 6. Reassessing the significance of the Vrba/Wetzler report; 7. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Information about Auschwitz to reach the West, November 1942–June 1944; Appendix 2. Archives and historians; Bibliography; Index.
An important contribution to the ongoing debate about what the Allies knew about the concentration camps during the Second World War.
Michael Fleming is a graduate of the University of London and the University of Oxford. He completed his doctoral research at the University of Oxford, including a year affiliated to the University of Warsaw. He has since taught at Jesus College and Pembroke College, Oxford, and at the Academy of Humanities and Economics, Łódź. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Pułtusk School of Humanities and at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He is currently a professor at the Polish University Abroad, London, and conference secretary to the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies. In 2011, he was awarded the Aquila Polonica Prize. Fleming is the author of Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950 (2010) and many articles examining twentieth-century history.
'Michael Fleming has made a major contribution to the
historiography of the Holocaust, and in the process has
demonstrated formidable skill as a scholar as well as admirable
moral courage … His book is undoubtedly one of the most important
in the study of the Holocaust in the last twenty years.' Alexander
J. Groth, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
'Michael Fleming's book is a meticulous investigation into what was
known, could have been known, and was transmitted in what fashion
about Auschwitz. He details the flow of information by looking at
the documents smuggled, the informants debriefed, and the articles
published in both the Jewish and Polish press abroad as well as the
general press in Britain and the US, with the occasional analysis
of the press of other Allied and neutral countries. … A
meticulously researched and well-organized book, it raises many
more questions than it could possibly answer; questions that will
continue to preoccupy us.' Stefan Ihrig, European History
Quarterly
'Michael Fleming's book is a critical addition to the
historiography on the intelligence aspects of the Holocaust,
particularly the ways in which reliable information concerning the
murder of Europe's Jews - and, specifically, information on the
Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp - became known in
Allied capitals and how the Allied governments disseminated and
acted on this information.' Norman J. W. Goda, The Journal of
Modern History
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