Jacob Rosenheim of Agudas Israel sent this letter to Morgenthau, Hull, Stimson, and Pehle on June 18th.  Everyone else has a lot to say about this letter and about the debate over the bombing of the rail lines and (later) the gas chambers in Auschwitz (and all the variations on this theme). It’s a super complicated situation, actually. Definitely not as easy as “we should have bombed Auschwitz, we could have saved everyone, but the War Department just didn’t care”–which seems to be what has seeped into public consciousness.  So I’m just going to present the document, and if you want to read more, you can read my book when it comes out. The debate is so heated that I don’t want to dumb down my explanation to fit it in a blog post.