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292: The Shadow of the Holocaust

The Rest Is History

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Do You Think Horty's Report Could Have Been Completed?

Based on the 437,000 people who died in Auschwitz, is it reasonable to say that had Horty immediately acted? I mean, people do act, you talk about vassal states. And by what he did in early July 1944, stopping the deportations proves that they could be stopped. So I think there was scope for much more action than ever happened. But Rudy Verbi himself never really accounted for a human incapacity to absorb information that is painful and unpalatable.

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