George McGovern and the bombing of Auschwitz

Former U.S. Senator and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern discusses his experiences as a World War II bomber pilot who flew over the Auschwitz death camp. The interview was conducted by Stuart Erdheim, of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and Chaim Hecht, of Israel Television, at McGovern’s home in South Dakota on December  20, 2004.