{"id":1311,"date":"2009-02-07T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2009-02-07T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T11:06:08","slug":"the-remarkable-case-of-rudolf-vrba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"The remarkable case of Rudolf Vrba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers of NightHawk will know, I&#8217;m currently reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Nazi-Holocaust-Its-History-Meaning\/dp\/1845112016\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1233055205&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;The Nazi Holocaust: Its History And Meaning&#8221;<\/a>. The book mentions in passing the case of a Slovak Jew called Rudolf Vrba and I recently saw a television programme about this remarkable story.<br \/>\nTogether with his friend Alfr\u00e9d Wetzler, Vrba managed to escape from the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. They made their way back to Slovakia where they told their astonishing tale of the Nazi industrial extermination of the Jews in occupied Poland. At first, they were disbelieved but, even when their account was circulated, the response was not what they expected and wanted.<br \/>\nRead this incredible story <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudolf_Vrba\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers of NightHawk will know, I&#8217;m currently reading &#8220;The Nazi Holocaust: Its History And Meaning&#8221;. The book mentions in passing the case of a Slovak Jew called Rudolf Vrba and I recently saw a television programme about this remarkable story. Together with his friend Alfr\u00e9d Wetzler, Vrba managed to escape from the Nazi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}