"On Auschwitz" (30): Why the Auschwitz camp was not bombed?

The Auschwitz II-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria never
became targets for Allied bombing, despite reports about their
existence forwarded both by the Polish resistance movement and
some people who escaped from the camp. Instead, American bombers
carried out several strikes against the IG Farben petrochemical
installations located at the distance of seven kilometers from
Auschwitz. 


Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, the head of the Research Center of the
Auschwitz Museum talks about the issue of bombing the camp.