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History Unplugged Podcast

How 2 Men Escaped Auschwitz, Exposed the Holocaust to the World, and Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Hungarian Jews

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Europe’s Jewish population suffered during every stage of the Holocaust, but by the time the Third Reich occupied Hungary and targeted its Jews for deportation and extermination, the concentration camps had reached their most efficient form. Historian...

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It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why

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Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange,

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and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

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I'm your host, Scott Rank.

1:19.5

For Europe's Jewish population, every stage of the Holocaust was a nightmare.

1:23.4

But by the time the Third Reich targeted Hungary's Jewish population for deportation and

1:27.6

extermination in 1944, the concentration camps had reached their most efficient form.

1:33.1

Historian Gerard Reitlinger said, the Hungarian Holocaust was the most concentrated and methodical

1:38.0

deportation and massacre program of the war, a slaughter machine that functioned perfectly

1:42.3

oiled for 46 days on it.

1:50.4

becomes

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could eventually turn out much worse.

2:13.1

It all has to do with two prisoners who escaped and told the world what was happening inside

2:18.0

the concentration camps. The two were Cheslov Mordovich, a 24-year-old Polish Jew,

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