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Warder Cresson was Accused of Being Insane for Converting to Judaism

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Desperate to stop the mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust, Jewish leaders tried to negotiate with the Nazis. Despite their courage, their efforts were doomed to fail, by Nazi design.

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