ABSTRACT
The head of the rescue committee was most alarmed to see Yoel Palgi and Peretz Goldstein. He saw their arrival as a direct threat to himself, his committee, and his deals with the Nazis. Soon after meeting these two paratroopers, he informed his Gestapo/SD contact, Gerhard Clages, that he was in touch with them. Rezso Kasztner's various accounts manipulated dates and facts and were full of evasions and contradictions, all calculated to sanitize his role in the affair. These were exposed during the Kasztner Trial and helped to turn public opinion against him. Nevertheless, there is enough consistent evidence in these accounts to lead us to the truth about Kasztner's treatment of Palgi and Goldstein— and to document his activities as a high-level informer for the Gestapo. Palgi's account of Kasztner's words mirrors what Kasztner was then telling the outside world in his letters to Jewish rescue activists.
