Surviving Hitler and Stalin
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The State Department's Attitude to the Passports
The State Department's attitude to the passports. was putting a kind of strict construction above the broad and generous view about human life, he says. When I read the information about my mother's story, I can see that there was a real dilemma whether or not you decided to help him by giving him what himler wanted in exchange for the Jews. Did you accept this hostage exchange? But if you didn't, it was, you know, you were basically letting people who, letting people die. These are very difficult decisions but they've rarely been as sort of crassly put as they were in that particular exchange.
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