Saving the Jews: rewriting history is nothing new

IN his letter headlined ‘Neither fascism nor saving the Jews was Britain’s aim’ (Sept 10), Tim O’Halloran says “there is a subtle rewriting of history that suggests the Allies were trying to save the Jews”.

This is not such a recent phenomenon as Mr O’ Halloran would think: it was already part of the Nazi propaganda claim that the war between the two great Aryan nations, Britain and Germany, was a result of the international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.

As Mr O’Halloran quite correctly observes, “the Allies made no attempt to disrupt the railways on which the camps depended”.