Escape from the Third Reich: The Harrowing True Story of the Largest Rescue Effort Inside Nazi Germany

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What the rescuers found at the camps was beyond comprehension, with many dead and others so malnourished that they were well on their way to being next. You can play as a group and solve the clues together as you walk, or you can split into smaller groups/teams and compete against the others. A lot of it focused on the Scandinavian countries, but the people who did this were just trying to get prisoners of the concentration camps out of German.

In this first book to detail this remarkable and hazardous operation, and with never-before-published photographs of the bus journeys, the details of Bernadotte's harrowing expedition to Ravensbruck concentration camp and his secret negotiations with Heinrich Himmler are revealed.The Swedish Red Cross expedition to the German concentration camps in March-April 1945 was the largest rescue effort inside Germany during WWII. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Despite saving tens of thousands of lives, Sweden's mission to rescue prisoners from Nazi concentration camps on a transport of white buses was fraught with conflict and controversy, including negotiations between its leader Folke Bernadotte and Heinrich Himmler. It is because it is a real oddity, a curiosity based on the tiniest thinnest sliver of truth in film history perhaps? Until I read this book I did not know the story of the white buses and the determination of those who wanted to save others from the death camps.Ho, the Chinese Consul in Vienna in 1938, issued Exit Visas to many Jews against the instruction of his superiors. For the most part the book was good, it was chock full of information, I actually had no idea that there was a type of mission that went on to get people repatriated.