Perfidy [Illustrated Edition]
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Perfidy [Illustrated Edition]

Ben Hecht

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Perfidy [Illustrated Edition]

Ben Hecht

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An exploration of the Kastner affair: a conspiracy, a violation of conscience, criminal betrayal.Picture those early days when the new nation of Israel was being formed in the region of Palestine European Jews had just endured history's ultimate holocaust. Allied governments such as Great Britain had refused to take action to block the trains from carrying thousands of them to certain death. In those final days before the end of the war, the epicenter of the Nazi extermination effort was Hungary. Jews had fled there from Germany and Poland, but they could not outrun the shadow of death. That is the obvious truth, but was there more? Was there collaboration with the enemy that resulted in these murderous acts?Can you really trust governments and leaders to do what is right and best for those they represent?As Edmund Burke declared, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." But what happens when those who are trusted as good join forces with evil?Underlying this story is a bizarre tapestry of deception at the highest levels of government with the lives of many innocents in the balance. The libel trial of Rudolf Kastner, a prominent journalist representing the new government and supported by its Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, establishes the outline of that hidden past, protected by the political interests of some of Israel's early leaders.A true classic…History that reads like a mystery novel when villains parade themselves as heroes and the real heroes are targets of evil.-Print ed.Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust

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2016
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9781787202139

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Images Of The Holocaust
Views of the Shoah
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Figure 1 - Bones of anti-Nazi German women can be seen in the crematoria in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany. Photo taken by the 3rd U.S. Army, 14th April 1945
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Figure 2 - This May 1945 picture shows Jasenovac victims' bodies disposed of without burial, thrown into the river Sava near Sisak.
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Figure 3 - Jews digging their own graves. Storow, July 4, 1941
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Figure 4 - A member of Einsatzgruppe D is about to shoot a man sitting by a mass grave inVinnytsia, Ukraine in 1942. Present in the background are members of the German Army, the German Labor Service, and theHitler Youth.[12] The back of the photograph is inscribed "The last Jew in Vinnitsa"
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Figure 5 - A fumigation team in New Orleans, 1939. Zyklon canisters are visible.
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Figure 6 - Zyklon B labels from Dachau concentration camp used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. The first and third panels contain manufacturer information and the brand name. The centre panel reads "Poison Gas! Cyanide preparation to be opened and used only by trained personnel".
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Figure 7 - Empty poison gas canisters found by the Allies at the end of World War II
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Figure 8 - A can of Zyklon B with adsorbent granules and original signed documents detailing ordering of Zyklon B as "materials for Jewish resettlement" (on display at Auschwitz concentration camp museum)
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Figure 9 - The ruins of the Crematorium II gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Figure 10 - Nazi blueprints of the Crematorium II gas chamber. A cross section view of the width of the room shows the ventilation channels that straddle the building along its longitudinal axis, marked Belüftung (aeration) andEntlüftungskanal (de-aeration channel).
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Figure 11 - Created in 1941, the Drancy internment camp on the outskirts of Paris was under the control of the French police until July 3, 1943. SS-Hauptsturmführer Alois Brunner directed it until August 1944. He was convicted in absentia in France in 2001 for crimes against humanity, and is believed to be the highest-ranking Nazi still at large
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Figure 12 - Budapest, Hungary – Captured Jewish women in Wesselényi Street, 20–22 October 1944
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Figure 13 - Jewish mass grave near Zolochiv, west Ukraine (Nazi occupied USSR). Photo was found by Soviets at former Gestapo headquarters in Zolochiv
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Figure 14 - 12 April 1945: Lager Nordhausen, where 20,000 inmates are believed to have died
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Figure 15 - The mass murder of 2,749 Jews on the beach near the city of Liepāja, in Latvia, on 15–17 December 1941
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Figure 16 - Polish civilian...

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