Perfidy [Illustrated Edition]

Ben Hecht

• Publisher: Normanby Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781787202139
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Holocaust History
• Index: History

An exploration of the Kastner affair: a conspiracy, a violation of conscience, criminal betrayal.
Picture those early days when the new nation of Israel was being formed in the region of Palestine European Jews had just endured history's ultimate holocaust. Allied governments such as Great Britain had refused to take action to block the trains from carrying thousands of them to certain death. In those final days before the end of the war, the epicenter of the Nazi extermination effort was Hungary. Jews had fled there from Germany and Poland, but they could not outrun the shadow of death. That is the obvious truth, but was there more? Was there collaboration with the enemy that resulted in these murderous acts?
Can you really trust governments and leaders to do what is right and best for those they represent?
As Edmund Burke declared, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." But what happens when those who are trusted as good join forces with evil?
Underlying this story is a bizarre tapestry of deception at the highest levels of government with the lives of many innocents in the balance. The libel trial of Rudolf Kastner, a prominent journalist representing the new government and supported by its Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, establishes the outline of that hidden past, protected by the political interests of some of Israel's early leaders.
A true classic…History that reads like a mystery novel when villains parade themselves as heroes and the real heroes are targets of evil.-Print ed.
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust

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Images Of The Holocaust

Views of the Shoah

Figure 1 - Bones of anti-Nazi German women can be seen in the crematoria in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany. Photo taken by the 3rd U.S. Army, 14th April 1945

Figure 2 - This May 1945 picture shows Jasenovac victims' bodies disposed of without burial, thrown into the river Sava near Sisak.

Figure 3 - Jews digging their own graves. Storow, July 4, 1941

Figure 4 - A member of Einsatzgruppe D is about to shoot a man sitting by a mass grave inVinnytsia, Ukraine in 1942. Present in the background are members of the German Army, the German Labor Service, and theHitler Youth.[12] The back of the photograph is inscribed "The last Jew in Vinnitsa"

Figure 5 - A fumigation team in New Orleans, 1939. Zyklon canisters are visible.

Figure 6 - Zyklon B labels from Dachau concentration camp used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. The first and third panels contain manufacturer information and the brand name. The centre panel reads "Poison Gas! Cyanide preparation to be opened and used only by trained personnel".

Figure 7 - Empty poison gas canisters found by the Allies at the end of World War II

Figure 8 - A can of Zyklon B with adsorbent granules and original signed documents detailing ordering of Zyklon B as "materials for Jewish resettlement" (on display at Auschwitz concentration camp museum)

Figure 9 - The ruins of the Crematorium II gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Figure 10 - Nazi blueprints of the Crematorium II gas chamber. A cross section view of the width of the room shows the ventilation channels that straddle the building along its longitudinal axis, marked Belüftung (aeration) andEntlüftungskanal (de-aeration channel).

Figure 11 - Created in 1941, the Drancy internment camp on the outskirts of Paris was under the control of the French police until July 3, 1943. SS-Hauptsturmführer Alois Brunner directed it until August 1944. He was convicted in absentia in France in 2001 for crimes against humanity, and is believed to be the highest-ranking Nazi still at large

Figure 12 - Budapest, Hungary – Captured Jewish women in Wesselényi Street, 20–22 October 1944

Figure 13 - Jewish mass grave near Zolochiv, west Ukraine (Nazi occupied USSR). Photo was found by Soviets at former Gestapo headquarters in Zolochiv

Figure 14 - 12 April 1945: Lager Nordhausen, where 20,000 inmates are believed to have died

Figure 15 - The mass murder of 2,749 Jews on the beach near the city of Liepāja, in Latvia, on 15–17 December 1941

Figure 16 - Polish civilian...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• PREFACE
• “THE ACCUSED”
• WHAT GREENWALD? WHAT HISTORY?
• “KNOW YOU THE FAR LAND WHERE THE LEMON TREES BLOOM?”
• HOME IS THE WANDERER
• THE GLORY THAT WAS BRITAIN
• “JUST FOR A RIBBON TO PUT IN HIS COAT”
• THE RELUCTANT MOSES
• THE LAWYER
• OF TWO JEWISH TRIBES-THE TERRORISTS AND THE TERRIFIED
• BEN-GURION’S CURSE
• A VISIT TO THE KING DAVID HOTEL
• THE UNDAUNTED
• OF THE TWELVE WHO WERE HANGED
• THE ALTALENA
• THE MISSING MEDALS
• BRIEFING BEFORE BATTLE
• ENTER PAMPHLET 51
• MOURNING BECAME THE GREEKS
• A LAWYER MOBILIZES
• “HEAR YE, HEAR YE, HEAR YE!”
• THE MAN FROM HELL
• THE SAMARITAN KASTNER
• “AND STILL HE SPOKE AND STILL THE WONDER GREW-”
• THE LIE
• WEATHER REPORT-TEMPEST DUE
• DOSSIER ON A MASTER JEW-KILLER
• THE LAWYER AND HIS AIDES
• THE UNMASKING OF KASTNER BEGINS
• A DOSTOEVSKY CHARACTER
• PINCH HITTER CHAIM COHEN-TO BAT
• “IN QUESTA TOMBA OSCURA?”-Dante
• WHEN THE WALTZES ENDED
• MY ONE MEDAL
• “ALL, ALL OF YOU DO I REMEMBER YET-”
• THE ANGUISH OF KASTNER
• THE SILENCE-AND THE DRUMS OF DEATH
• THE MURDER CHESS GAME
• THE TENETS OF SATAN
• KASTNER INTO FAUST
• “THE SERVICE OF HIS PEOPLE”
• “NOW FORGE THYSELF A HEART, O MAN, AND COME AND WALK THE TOWN OF SLAUGHTER.”-Bialik
• LOOK HOMEWARD, DARK ANGEL
• A JUDGE SPEAKS IN ISRAEL
• ENTER A HEROINE, THANK GOD
• GHOSTS SPEAK OUT IN COURT
• REBUTTAL
• SLAUGHTER IN SUMMER
• THE SILENCE
• EPITAPH
• END OF A MYTH
• OPERATION WHITEWASH
• THE ODDITY OF GUILT
• CHAIM COHEN “STANDS BEFORE GOD”
• THE DEFENSE SUMS UP
• THE SOUL OF A JUDGE
• THE MORNING AFTER
• MY OWN SUMMATION
• A SONG OF SONGS-?
• HERE IS “NEW EVIDENCE”!
• BEN-GURION’S CROP OF DILEMMAS
• EXIT, DR. KASTNER
• THE HARLEQUIN MURDER
• THE STORY OF JOEL BRAND
• A GHOST IS SUMMONED
• “THE MOUTH OF OUTRAGE”
• “SET YOU DOWN THIS....THAT IN ALEPPO ONCE-”
• PERFIDY IN ISRAEL
• TRAIN TO PONTIUS PILATE’S VILLA
• EVERY MAN HAS TWO TONGUES
• “GIVE THEM THE FOILS, YOUNG OSRIC”
• ENVOI
• REFERENCE NOTES
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER