later. secondly we couldn t reach the rail lines until mid 1944 when largely the holocaust had run its had run its course. thirdly, what the military said was you can try bombing the rail lines and the germans could rebuild them in a matter of days or even a matter of hours. more serious was the idea of bombing auschwitz, itself, which was reachable. and we said, in our book, that we thought it should have been tried, but it would not have fundlily changed the holocaust. it came late. and even if precision bombing, which is very uncertain, had destroyed auschwitz, the sad story of the holocaust is the germans were infinitely resourceful when it came to killing jews. they killed hundreds of thousands of jews before they set up the death camp, and hundreds of thousands of jews afterwards. moreover, roosevelt never made this decision. we found no evidence that it