zahavasdad: that description of Kastner , as a “useful idiot” may come close to the truth. Nonetheless, he saved 1400 jews that-otherwise- might have been killed. All those harebrained schemes that some very well meaning people devised -trucks for jews, etc..- was never realistic. The Allies would never give the Nazis war material. That was a true pipe-dream. At best, only a few thousand could be saved by bribes or other machinations -like giving visas. Jews in Hungary knew that Jews were being killed in large numbers- Polish refugees all told this story. The sad part was that few listened.
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