Iraq v. WW II

[David Gentle]

<<By 1943, at the latest, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill were debating
how to reconstruct Europe (and the world) after the defeat of The Axis.
All the while, of course, Churchill had access to "Hitler's mail" thanks to
Bletchley Park. The Foreword forwards Orwell's reluctance to include
the horror of the camps and what rough beast lurking in the heart of
modernity they represented. By doing so, Pynchon points to the huge
question in the background: Why didn't the allies make public, in the
strongest possible terms, the horror of the camps, of which they
knew perfectly well about?

Part of the answer lies in Pynchon's comments about "doublethink,"
and notice the specific Orwellian quote forwarding O's concern for
the (dis)ability of British socialists to accept the simultaneous right
and wrong of "such things as concentration camps and mass
deportations" (xi). Although ostensibly about British Socialists and
their acceptance of Stalinism, P's technique here is designed as much
to draw attention to the reticence, felt or not, of the allies regarding
The Holocaust, as it was happening.

respectfully>>

I think a more likely answer is security. They couldn't very well offer such extraordinary claims
without proof but if the admit to knowing what they knew then their prime inteligence source would
be cut off very quickly. It's one of the numerous problems with trying to be big brother.

David Gentle