Scott here with another episode of the History Unplugged Podcast.

Between 1940 and 1943, Polish diplomats based in Burns Switzerland

engaged in a remarkable humanitarian operation.

In concert with two Jewish activists, these diplomats masterminded a systematic program of forging

documents for Latin American countries that were smuggled into occupied Europe in an attempt to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust.

The driver of this effort was Polish diplomat Alexander Wadosh, who took up a post and burn in 1940 at a time when Poland didn't technically

exist.

It had been carved up by the Germans and Russians after the Nazi Soviet Pact of 1939.

He decided to save his Jewish compatriots when most of the world had turned their backs on them or offered them empty promises of help,

may manage to start forging Paraguayan passports, rescuing thousands of Polish Jews out of ghettos in Warsaw and elsewhere. Today's guest is Roger Morehouse,

author of the Foragers, but forgotten story of the Holocaust's most audacious

rescue operation. We look at how this scheme lasted as long as it did even though the

Germans knew what was going on and didn't actually believe that

thousands of elderly Poles were also dual citizens, what happened to those who successfully

fled Poland and larger implications of this story.

Hope we enjoy this discussion with Roger Morehouse.

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