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The trial and aftermath of Rudolf Kastner's role in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.
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a date which will live in infamy. [music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the G. >> The 11 Olympic team members slain [music] in West Germany. to help Americ were Americans who had come to learn in the tarant. I save 1 million Jewish children who were made to be cut. [music] Whoever heard such beautiful words Gabri with Jew history sound bites and this episode is part eight of our ongoing series about the Castner train. This part will be about the Kner trial, the characters in the trial, the witnesses, the proceedings of the trial, what was discussed and what was not discussed at the trial, the verdict and the appeal to of that verdict to the Supreme Court in Israel, the assassination of Rudolph Kasner uh before the uh Supreme Court finished with its deliberations and then finishing off with the verdict of the Supreme Court. That's what we're going to try to accomplish today. There are five main characters at the trial. Um there's many, many more people who made an appearance, but these are the five primary characters. Um Malle Greenwald is the defendant. He's the one who made the we spoke about in last week because last week was a replay of the uh was the fast earthquake. We had a off week, but two weeks ago, the last part seven, um, we opened up the trial. Malg is the defendant because he is the one who accuses Castner of collaboration with the Nazis, of not warning Hungarian jury about the impending deportations to Avitz, and testifying um on behalf of ESS officer Kurt Becker. Um and um the state of Israel um sues
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- 0:05a date which will live in infamy. [music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got off…
- 6:20vocal in his journalistic pieces. Now he eventually he was a victim actually of an anti-semitic…
- 12:35reparations from Germany and received a fine for that. Grunvald continued to live in Urusim until…
- 18:56like the Mapai establishment, the leftist um labor Zionist establishment, which the Mapai is the they're…
- 25:05same thing in the Castner trial. just for some reason the Castner not for some reason…
- 31:23Carlbach. And he was one of the most famous rabbis in Germany. And most of his…
- 37:36And there's 36 witnesses called for by the defense. And these witnesses are cross-examined. long procedures…
- 43:48to politicize the trial to make it not about Castner at all to make it about…
- 49:56drive of the SS. They were hellbent on murdering Jews. They wanted to exterminate the Jews…
- 56:00you know about Avitz? Did you know Kasner visits Kuj in early May 1944? Did you…
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