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Setting the Past Free - Part One
Mark Lawson explores the varied cultural retellings of the Rudolf Kastner story 鈥� is he a hero or villain of the Holocaust?
For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. The story began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief and Rescue Committee. He negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to save Jewish lives but did he pay for them with other Jewish lives?
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