Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. The Background: 1. The Red Cross, political prisoners and racial persecution before 1939; 2. Secrecy, rumour, information; 3. The door that stayed shut; 4. Ways and means; Part II. The ICRC and Political and Racial Persecution in Hitler's Europe: 5. The occupied countries; 6. The satellites; 7. The Axis allies; Part III. Another Turn of the Screw: 8. The drama of retreat, persecution and action played out in Hungary; 9. Aid and protection on the eve of liberation; 10. Conclusion.

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This book presents a startling assessment of the role of the Red Cross in the Holocaust.

Reviews

' ... mind-boggling and an excellently researched academic treatise.' Jewish Herald Voice ' ... excellently translated ... Favez's book gives many examples of the difficulties that the historian faces in considering the actual role of the Red Cross'. History Today 'Favez is the first historian to have been granted complete access to the records of the Red Cross, and he has mined them well ... The Red Cross and the Holocaust ably documents a crucial chapter in the history of the Shoah and constitutes an important contribution to the historiography of international responses to this unprecedented tragedy.' Studies in Contemporary Jewry