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"""Paul Bogdanor has written a clear, compelling, important book about one of the most disputed sets of events during the Holocaust... Bogdanor has produced what may be the best historical review of Kasztner's wartime activities produced in recent years... The case against Kasztner, based on years of careful research is presented with forensic skill... Kasztner's Crime takes the history of the Holocaust in Hungary a considerable step forward."" - Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, Jewish Chronicle ""[A] well-researched book on the contentious Kasztner affair - a controversy that commenced in wartime Hungary and has continued until the present day... Bogdanor demonstrates that Kasztner's story after 1945 constantly changed, peppered by omissions and contradictions ... at the back of the reader's mind, there will still lurk the question of what he or she would have done in Kasztner's position. A course of action which resides in the grayness of immoral choice - the difference between bad and worse. Bogdanor's book provides uncomfortable food for thought in this personal arena as well."" -Colin Shindler, The Jerusalem Post ""[Paul Bogdanor] gives us a more compelling and convincing overall assessment of Kasztner... well-researched... Bogdanor['s] book is a must read."" - Dr Josef Olmert, The Times of Israel ""With painstaking attention to detail, author and researcher Paul Bogdanor convincingly and coherently sets out to prove the [...] assertion: that the man who set out to rescue Jews from the Nazis indeed became an SS collaborator and an accessory to the genocide of the Jewish masses."" - Lovereading ""Mr Bogdanor, who spent ten painstaking years researching Kasztner's connection with the Nazis, uncovered the terrible truth after examining a number of unequivocal - and until now overlooked - testimonies of Holocaust survivors. He also delved into Kasztner's own post-war report and other documented evidence, much of which has never been translated into English before."" - Jennifer Newton, The Daily Mail ""Rumours and unsubstantiated charges that Kasztner sacrificed the lives of Jews are not new. The claims led to a controversial libel trial in Israel in the 1950s. But it is the first time that he can be shown 'beyond all doubt' to have played a role in the genocide and to have knowingly betrayed his people."" - Kirstie McCrum, The Mirror ""Paul Bogdanor studied the image of Kasztner and published his conclusions from the evidence given by Holocaust survivors about the controversial man. In his new book the author shatters the positive myth created around Kasztner, whereby he was a hero who saved many Jews from the clutches of the Nazis."" - NRG, Israeli news site ""Kasztner, it is argued, helped Eichmann to deport hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. Bogdanor's research, originally intended to prove Kasztner's innocence, included examination of the testimonies of Holocaust survivors."" - Israel Hayom, Israeli newspaper ""[T]he majority of Hungary's Jews were never warned about their imminent fate [in Nazi death camps], but believed they were being resettled for forced labor 'in the east.' ... [Paul Bogdanor's] well-researched and incisive indictment... is both graphic and convincing. It will undoubtedly cause renewed shockwaves among the descendants of survivors worldwide."" -John S. Conway, Professor Emeritus of History, University of British Columbia ""Impresses with good knowledge of the source."" Stephen Tree Judische Allgemeine"

[T]he majority of Hungary's Jews were never warned about their imminent fate [in Nazi death camps], but believed they were being resettled for forced labor 'in the east.' . . . [Paul Bogdanor's] well-researched and incisive indictment. . . is both graphic and convincing. It will undoubtedly cause renewed shockwaves among the descendants of survivors worldwide. </p> --John S. Conway, Professor Emeritus of History, University of British Columbia</p> </p>

[Paul Bogdanor] gives us a more compelling and convincing overall assessment of Kasztner... well-researched... Bogdanor['s] book is a must read. - The Times of Israel (Dr Josef Olmert, Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina) With painstaking attention to detail, author and researcher Paul Bogdanor convincingly and coherently sets out to prove the [...] assertion: that the man who set out to rescue Jews from the Nazis indeed became an SS collaborator and an accessory to the genocide of the Jewish masses. - Lovereading

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Paul Bogdanor is an independent researcher in Britain. He previously co-edited The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders. He has also written for publications in the United States, Britain and Israel.

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