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| *, ''Online Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies'', Volume 18, No. 2, Winter 2005, retrieved May 7, 2006 | *, ''Online Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies'', Volume 18, No. 2, Winter 2005, retrieved May 7, 2006 | ||
| ⚫ | *Bauer, Yehuda. ''Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945'', Yale University Press, 1994. ISBN 0300068522 | ||
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| *Hecht, Ben. ''Perfidy'', Milah Press, first published in 1961. ISBN 0964688638 | *Hecht, Ben. ''Perfidy'', Milah Press, first published in 1961. ISBN 0964688638 | ||
| ⚫ | *Bauer, Yehuda. ''Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945'', Yale University Press, 1994. ISBN 0300068522 | ||
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Joel Brand (1907 – 1964) was a Hungarian Jew who played a prominent role, during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, in an attempt to save Jewish lives by making a deal in April 1944 with Adolf Eichmann — who was in charge of the deportation of Jews from Hungary to the German death camp at Auschwitz — to exchange up to one million Hungarian Jews for trucks, soap, tea, coffee, and sugar from the Allies. The deal, which failed, became known as the "blood for trucks" agreement.
Background
Brand was born in Năsăud, Transylvania, now Romania, moving in 1910 with his family to Erfurt in Germany, where he was was raised and educated. He became a communist and worked for the Comintern as a sailor and odd-job man, later becoming a middle-ranking communist functionary in Germany, which led to his arrest when the Nazis came to power. When he was released in 1934, he left Germany and settled in Budapest, Hungary, where he became a Zionist, and joined the Mapai (Israel Labour Party) youth movement.
Notes
- "Yehuda Bauer: Teaching about the Holocaust (Part 2)", Online Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies, Volume 18, No. 2, Winter 2005
- Bauer, Yehuda. Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945, Yale University Press, 1994, p. 152
References
- "Yehuda Bauer: Teaching about the Holocaust (Part 2)", Online Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies, Volume 18, No. 2, Winter 2005, retrieved May 7, 2006
- Bauer, Yehuda. Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945, Yale University Press, 1994. ISBN 0300068522
Further reading
- Hecht, Ben. Perfidy, Milah Press, first published in 1961. ISBN 0964688638
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