Adolf Kastner Research Paper

THE KASTNER AFFAIR

Recently, BBC radio has broadcasted an unusual program about a controversial person and a conflict of interest in which he was involved.

In March 1957, Rezso Kasztner was assassinated in Tel Aviv. He was a Hungarian Jew who had saved nearly 1700 people from the Holocaust by negotiating with Nazis. In Israel he had been accused of being a Nazi collaborator.

After Hitler attacked Hungary in March 1944, and the local Jews were gathered together and expelled to Auschwitz at the rate of 12,000 a day, Kastner arranged with Adolf Eichmann for the payment of more than 1,600 Jews who were in the end transported to security in Switzerland by a special train. Survivors of that trip review their fear when the train was diverted

In the late spring of 1952, Malchiel Gruenwald, a Hungarian elderly from Jerusalem, distributed handouts blaming Kastner for being a Nazi collaborator in the killing of Hungarian Jews, a raider of Jewish property, and a supporter of a Nazi war criminal after the war. The leaflets called for Kastner's assassination.

Failure to warn Jews

Kastner's pundits contend that he guaranteed the SS not to caution Hungarian Jews all together not to endanger transactions to spare the Jews who got away on the Kastner train. In 1960 a meeting with Eichmann made by the Dutch Nazi writer Willem Sassen in Argentina was published in Life Magazine. In the meeting Eichmann said that Kastner "agreed to help keep the Jews from resisting deportation – and even keep order in the collection camps – if I would close my eyes and let a few hundred or a few thousand young Jews emigrate to Palestine. It was a good bargain."(“The Confession of Adolf Eichmann”, 2016).

Kastner's supporters contend that the agreement over the train was a piece of a much bigger salvage exertion including talks to spare all Hungarian Jews. They likewise contend that he couldn't have saved Jews by notice them in any