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Secrets of the Dead
Bombing Auschwitz
Season 18
Episode 2
Join historians, survivors and experts as they consider one of the great moral dilemmas of the 20th century: Should the Allies have risked killing Auschwitz prisoners and bombed the camp to stop future atrocities?
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