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Title: Deception: How the Nazis Tricked the Last Jews of Europe
Author: HALE CHRISTOPHER
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/11/2019
Imprint: HISTORY PRESS LTD
Price: $65.00
Publishing status: Active
The first book to tell the complete story of Adolf Eichmann’s plan to deceive the last Jews of Europe.
‘I suppose you know who I am? I was in charge of the actions in Germany and Poland and Czechoslovakia. I am prepared to sell you one million Jews: Goods for blood … Blood for goods.’
These were the chilling words uttered by one of the most notorious Nazi bureaucrats, SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, to a young Jewish businessman called Joel Brand in the spring of 1944. Brand embarked on a desperate mission to persuade the Allies to barter with Eichmann – and failed. 400,000 Hungarian Jews were taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau packed in cattle trains, gassed, and then incinerated. For decades after 1945, many blamed the Allies for callously abandoning a million Hungarian Jews to their fate. In Deception, Christopher Hale presents a new account of the ‘Brand Mission’ based on evidence in the national archives of Germany, Hungary, Britain and the United States. Hale reveals that Eichmann’s offer formed one part of a monstrous deception designed to outwit the leaders of the last surviving Jewish community in Europe. The deception was more complex and – from the German point of view – more successful than any equivalent operation mounted by the British secret service such as ‘Operation Mincemeat’.
20 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 9780750988179
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm