These were “protection passports” given to Jews in Hungary circa 1944 by Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland to save them from being sent to the work camps and certain death.
This innocuous policy, a mere footnote in history, begs a number of questions and portends several important facts:
- The allies know all about the concentration camps well before they were discovered after Germany surrendered
- Why didn’t the allies bomb the camps or at least disrupt railheads serving the camps?
- Why didn’t any other nations issue “protection passports” to any Jews?
- The subtext of all this is that the allies knew all about the death camps and did all they could to keep them fully operational for as long as humanly possible.
Imagine, if you will, what the Nazi high command must have thought about the situation. The allies sortied gigantic fleets of bombers 24/7 for the last two years of the war. Every city in Germany was rubble.
Yet, the concentration camps were undamaged, not a single loose brick from a stray bombing run. The railroads serving the camps were undamaged; massive, gigantic railroad terminals serving Auschwitz and linking it and all the other camps with the hundreds of subcamps they each provide workers to. Fully operational, until the very end.
Logically, the Nazis assumed this was tacit support of the allies for their extermination of the Jews. So, they pushed onward with all haste.