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Deception : how the Nazis tricked the last Jews of Europe / Christopher Hale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hale, Chris (Christopher), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Hungary.
- Atrocities.
- Jews.
- Brand, Joel, 1906-1964.
- Brand, Joel.
- Kasztner, Rezső Rudolf, 1906-1957.
- Kasztner, Rezső Rudolf.
- Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.
- Eichmann, Adolf.
- Physical Description:
- 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "In the spring of 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered German troops to occupy Hungary. A special SS unit led by Adolf Eichmann arrived in Budapest. Its purpose? To deport hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. They had already murdered millions of European Jews in occupied Poland. On the eve of this destruction, a group of Hungarian Zionists known as the 'Va'ada', led by Joel Brand and Rezsö Kasztner, began negotiating with the SS to save lives. Then Eichmann made an astonishing offer: to ransom 'a million Jews for 10,000 trucks - Blood for trucks'. Brand was flown to Istanbul to negotiate with the Allies. But Brand's mission failed, and he was imprisoned as a 'German agent' by the British in Cairo"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-438) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780750988179
- 0750988177
- OCLC:
- 1084498849
- Publisher Number:
- 99982291862
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