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Briefly, the accusations against Kastner are as follows:
Dr. Rudolf Verba, a Doctor of Science now serving at the British Medical
Research Council, was one of the few escapees from Auschwitz. In his
memoirs published in February, 1961, in the London Daily Herald he wrote:
I am a Jew. In spite of that - indeed because of that - I accuse certain
Jewish leaders of one of the most ghastly deeds of the war.
This small group of quislings knew what was happening to their brethren in
Hitler’s gas chambers and bought their own lives with the price of silence.
Among them was Dr. Kastner, leader of the council which spoke for all Jews in
Hungary…
While I was prisoner number 44070 at Auschwitz - the number is still on my
arm - I compiled careful statistics of the exterminations…I took these terrible
statistics with me when I escaped in I944 and I was able to give Hungarian
Zionist leaders three weeks notice that Eichmann planned to send a million of
their Jews to his gas chambers… Kastner went to Eichmann and told him, 'I
know of your plans: spare some Jews of my choice and I shall keep quiet.'
Eichmann not only agreed, but dressed Kastner up in S.S. uniform and took
him to Belsen to trace some of his friends. Nor did the sordid bargaining end
there.
Kastner paid Eichmann several thousand dollars. With this little fortune,
Eichmann was able to buy his way to freedom when Germany collapsed, to
set himself up in the Argentine…'22
These accusations are confirmed by the ‘Eichmann Confessions’ published in
Life magazine, 28 November and 5 December, I960:
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