I have read elsewhere on this subject that the motivation for British officials keeping silent on this was not wanting to provide Jews with an unanswerable moral case for emigration to Palestine at a time when the British were actively keeping them out, a policy that continued post-war.
Why British intelligence refused to believe all reports of the mass murder of Poland's Jews
Times
06/06/2005
Information about the gas chambers was kept from Churchill because officials would not accept the evidence of witnesses
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I've just found out - on the Exodus (see first link in my posting) there were only 5 passengers who were *not* from concentration camps.
These five were a group of young British Zionists - and among them were a cousin of mine called Molly and her husband!
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