It would have been technically possible to have taken out the railway lines leading to Auschwitz, at least by late 1944, but they would have been fairly easy to repair. While the kind of area bombing you link to was the normal type of operation, especially for the British and Canadian night bombers, much more precise operations were possible. Examples would include the "Dambuster" raid, the bombing of the Tirpitz and, perhaps most spectacularly, taking out one wall of Amiens jail so that Resistance members held by the Germans could be busted out.
Probably the biggest problem involved in any kind of air operation against the extermination camps would have been that, being in Poland, they would have been at the extreme of the western allies bomber force's operational range. Out of range before the autumn of 1944 I'd imagine. It was the same problem that made it almost impossible to send supplies to the Warsaw Rising.
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Date: 2008-01-11 02:27 pm (UTC)Probably the biggest problem involved in any kind of air operation against the extermination camps would have been that, being in Poland, they would have been at the extreme of the western allies bomber force's operational range. Out of range before the autumn of 1944 I'd imagine. It was the same problem that made it almost impossible to send supplies to the Warsaw Rising.