berlin: If you insist on thanking someone, consider the following:
Adolf Eichmann:
Ordered a train with a 1700 capacity
Authorized the boarding of 1700 Jews
Ordered border guards to allow passage of train to Switzerland
Kastner had the capacity nor the authority to do any of that. All he could do, as a favor to him from Eichmann, was select the passenger list. Why did Eichmann give him that favor? In return for Kastner keeping the Jews quiet so Eichmann could liquidate them to Aushwitz without too much trouble. So kastner hid the Vrba-Westzler Report. And even AFTER the war, Kastner testified in DEFENSE of multiple Nazis at their war crimes trials in Nuremberg and got them acquitted and saved their lives.