Hitler, the Allies, and the JewsThis book offers an analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, its origins, and its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. With the Holocaust developing like a sort of a doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found themselves between the hammer and various anvils, each of which worked according to the logic created by the Nazis that dictated the behavior of other parties and the relations between them before and during the Holocaust. The interplay between the various parties contributed to the victims' doom first by preventing help and later preventing rescue. These help and rescue efforts proved mainly self defeating, and various legacies about them emerged during the Holocaust and are heatedly debated even today. Their real nature is uncovered here on the basis of newly opened archives worldwide. |
Contents
The Initial and the Double | 3 |
Western Responses | 10 |
A Flashback on the Palestine Question | 17 |
The Final Solution Decision and Its Initial Implementation | 36 |
The Final Solution in Some Detail and More on | 44 |
The Zionists Dilemmas | 53 |
The War Priorities of the Western Allies and Rules | 65 |
Missed Opportunities? | 75 |
THE BRANDGROSZ MISSIONS WITHIN THE LARGER | 225 |
Rescue Allied Intelligence and the | 232 |
How the Missions Were Born | 241 |
The Demise of a Rescue Mission | 248 |
Open and Secret War Schemes and Realities | 262 |
OWIs Reservations | 271 |
The Train | 281 |
The Bombing Controversy Speer and Zuckerman | 290 |
The Road to Biltmore | 102 |
American Wartime Realities 19421943 | 117 |
Bermuda Breckinridge Long G2 Biddle Taylor | 125 |
The Views of Harold Glidden andor British Intelligence | 147 |
Various Methods of Rescue | 153 |
Istanbul Geneva and Jerusalem | 159 |
The Significance of the British Decrypts | 181 |
The Origins of the Budapest Rescue Committee | 188 |
The Double Hungarian Debacle | 214 |
The Great Season | 298 |
Becher Mayer and the Death Marches | 304 |
The End of the Final Solution Budapest | 312 |
SelfTraps The OSS and Kasztner at Nuremberg | 322 |
Notes on Sources | 335 |
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