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Carl Lutz: The unsung Holocaust hero
Carl Lutz has been credited with leading largest WWII civilian rescue
A Swiss diplomat has been credited with leading the largest civilian rescue operation of World War Two. But instead of being applauded for saving thousands of Jewish lives, he was reprimanded and - until recently - largely forgotten, as Imogen Foulkes reports.
(Image: Carl Lutz, credit: ARCHIV FÜR ZEITGESCHICHTE, ETH ZURICH)
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