Rudolf herber wrote a 32-page report on nancy atrocities and war crimes. It was passed to an army magazine called yank, but they rejected it as 'too semitic' The de facto leader of the jews of hungary didn't pass it on for his own reasons. He kept it in a drawer in his desk, and the jews never knew bout it. i think that prejudice might have been part of the reason why this wasn't done in kasna. More than one foreign office official has said he or she is baffled by how people can just look away from such terrible news.
During the Second World War, Rudolph Vrba was one of the very few people to escape the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He did so along with fellow escapee, Alfred Wetzler, in April 1944. Vrba is the subject of columnist and author Jonathan Freedland's new book, The Escape Artist. He joins journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana to discuss Vrba's incredible story.
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