Hecht, Ben; Perfidy
NEW YORK, MESSNER, 1961 FIRST ED, HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: VERY GOOD
Dj has green border surrounding title, chipped at edges, closed tears, tanning spine, and gerneral shelf/edge wear. General shelf/edge wear, faded spine/edges. LIGHTLY INK STAMPED ADDRESS: DEPT. OF ADULT JEWISH EDUCATION on free endpaper In my own time, governments have taken the place of people. They have also taken the place of God. I have written chiefly of one government in this book - that of the new Jewish state of Israel. I am a Jew. I come of a long, never-broken line of Jews. They did well by the world. What happened to this fine heritage when the Jews finally fashioned a government of their own in Israel; what happened to Jews when they became Jewish politicians, what happened to a piety, a sense of honor, and a brotherly love that 2,500 years of anti-semitism were unable to disturb in the Jewish soul? My answers are in this book. - from Preface. The book draws heavily on transcripts from the trial, and concludes that in 1944 Rudolf Kastner deliberately withheld from the Jews in Hungary that the trains the Nazis were putting them on were taking them to death by the gas chamber, not to a fictitious resettlement city as the Nazis claimed, and that Kastner then lied about it under oath.
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