Part 12/14:
Dr. Brovkin emphasizes the importance of acknowledging this tragic silence, including the failure—despite available intelligence—to bomb rail tracks or target extermination camps, which might have mitigated some horrors.
He also highlights Switzerland's role, especially the chemical manufacturing giant IG Farben, which produced poison gas used in Auschwitz. Interestingly, American investors had stakes in Swiss companies involved in gas production, and these firms continued operations with minimal disruption during the war. The revelation of these facts underscores the complex web of economic interests intertwined with wartime atrocities.