Kurt Becher

Kurt Andreas Ernst Becher (12 September 1909 – 8 August 1995) was a mid-ranking SS commander who was Commissar of all German concentration camps, and Chief of the Economic Department of the SS Command in Hungary during the German occupation in 1944. He is best known for having traded Jewish lives for money during the Holocaust.

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the Holocaust
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Writers
  • Malchiel Gruenwald (Michtavim el haveray be'Mizrahi, weekly pamphlet, 1952)
  • Ben Hecht (Perfidy, 1961)
  • Raul Hilberg (The Destruction of the European Jews, 1961)
  • Rudolf Vrba (I Cannot Forgive, 1963)
  • Randolph L. Braham (The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, 1981)
  • Motti Lerner (Kastner, 1985; The Kastner Trial, 1994)
  • Jim Allen (Perdition, 1987)
  • Yehuda Bauer (Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933–1945, 1994)
  • Tuvia Friling (Arrows in the Dark, 1998)
  • Ladislaus Löb (Rezső Kasztner, 2008)
  • Anna Porter (Kasztner's Train, 2008)
  • Gaylen Ross (Killing Kasztner, 2008)
  • Jeremy Davidson (Tickling Leo, 2009)
  • Paul Bogdanor (Kasztner’s Crime, 2016)
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