Surviving Hitler and Stalin
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The Importance of Passports in the War
A group of Polish diplomats, part of the Polish government in exile that was based in Bern, sold them. A Swiss man who was the honorary consul to Paraguay would sell them and ultimately they expanded this to a few of the other honorary consuls as well. They could then fill them in in the names of Jews that they'd identified with pictures. So everything of this passport was in order except for the fact that it was falsely issued. These people were not eligible for these passports, but they did for everyone because the fiction was convenient,. certainly to the Nazis. And ultimately, when once the Allies, which they only did very late in the war, hit upon the idea that saving
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