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May 31, 2019

The Forgotten Story of the Japanese Schindler and His Nemesis in the Gestapo

Willy Foerster saved Jews, but was arrested for war crimes.

Two years ago, the German scholar Clemens Jochem wrote a book based on extensive research into the German-born industrialist Willy Foerster—long thought to have been a Nazi war criminal—showing that he in fact used his factory to save Jews in the Far East from the grip of the Third Reich. Liane Grunberg writes:

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