A group of Holocaust survivors filed a lawsuit seeking $40 billion in damages from the United States for not bombing the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, according to the French news agency Agence France-Presse. The survivors contended that the failure to bomb the camp contributed to the genocide of millions of Jews.
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