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Winston Churchill's responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine

Debate over Winston Churchill’s responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine, which killed up to 3 million people, centers on whether wartime policy choices worsened the crisis

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Was churchil responsible for a genocide?

Winston Churchill’s wartime decisions and rhetoric are widely blamed for aggravating the 1943 Bengal famine and some commentators have labeled his conduct genocidal, but the historical record in the s...