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tion Camp Survivor, Lili [Jacob] Meier, New York: Random House, 1981, pp. vii-x,
xxiv-xxvi. On the aerial photography of the camp, see Dino A. Brugioni and Robert
G. Poirier, The Holocaust Revisited: A Retrospective Analysis of the Auschwitz-
Birkenau Extermination Complex, Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency,
February 1979 (still available from the National Technical Information Service,
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the CIA analysts’ work; Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies, New York:
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of the Jews, New York: Pantheon, 1984, p. 302; and Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust
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the subject of a BBC television film, also called Auschwitz and the Allies, in 1982.
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13. Maurice Blanchot, L’écriture du désastre, Paris: Gallimard, 1980, p. 67.