Did Kasztner Sell Jews to the Nazis?

In January 1954, the Attorney General v. Gruenwald case AKA the Kasztner trial began. This was seemingly an open and shut libel case between an elderly Hungarian Jew and Israeli government official, Israel Rudolf Kasztner.
However, when the story of the impossible choices Kastner faced at the hands of the Nazis came to light, Israel was in an uproar. Somehow, this seemingly straightforward trial sent the country reeling, causing a government fallout and led to one of Israel’s first political assassination.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:02 Malchiel Gruenwald accuses Kastner of Nazi collaboration
02:53 Kastner cuts a deal with Adolf Eichmann
04:14 Chaim Cohen sues Gruenwald for libel
04:52 The Revisionists and the Irgun
05:12 The Socialists and the Hagana
05:36 The Kastner trial
07:02 The judge's verdict
07:47 Aftermath of the Kastner Affair
08:20 Overturn of the verdict
08:48 Kastner's assassination
09:02 Negation of the Diaspora
10:22 Outro

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Image and footage credits:
Associated Press
The British Film Institute
British Pathé
Carmel Newsreel
Carmel Herzilya Newsreel
Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel, the Estate of David Tidhar and Touro College Libraries
Geva Newsreel
HaOlam HaZeh
Historical Jewish Press website – www.jpress.org.il – founded by the National Library and Tel Aviv University
Israeli Government Press Office: Teddy Brauner, Chanania Herman, Zoltan Kluger, Hugo Mendelson, Hans Pinn, Moshe Pridan
Israeli State Archives
Jabotinsky Institute
Kastner Family
Memorial Museum of Hungarian Jewry
National Film Institute Hungary
The National Library of Israel
Newspapers.com: Evening Express, The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
Dr. Katalin Pető
Pixabay
Prelinger Archives
Reuters - Gaumont British Newsreel
The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
United Artists
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
US War Department
Yad VaShem
The Israeli commemoration project "Yizkor," organized by the Ministry of Defense

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