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    The ‘Myth’ and Reality of Rescue from the Holocaust: The Karski–Koestler and Vrba–Wetzler Reports.

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    2000
    Author
    Baron, Frank
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    Rodopi
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    Abstract
    Reliable information about the progress of the Holocaust was not readily available before the end of the Second World War. It has been argued that the Allies could not have saved more Jews under the given circumstances. The analysis of two important first-hand reports of 1942 and 1944 suggest, however, a different interpretation. These reports were dramatic in their impact and instrumental in bringing about rescue efforts. If these documents had not been subject to restrictions and delays in reaching a wide readership, they could have been even more effective in mobilizing public opinion in support of rescue missions.
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    This is the author's accepted manuscript. See also: Von Ungarn nach Auschwitz: Die verschwiegene Warnung at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6817. An English translation of the Vrba-Wetzler report may be found at http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/auschproto.html.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6834
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    “The ‘Myth’ and Reality of Rescue from the Holocaust: The Karski–Koestler and Vrba–Wetzler Reports.“ The Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 2 (2000), pp. 171–208.

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