Kastner Trial - Part 3

Three-part documentary series produced by Israeli television that deals with the Kastner-Grunwald libel trial and the story of Rezso Israel Kasztner, an attorney and Zionist leader in Hungary who was a very controversial figure against the background of contacts and negotiations he conducted with the Nazis regarding the rescue of Jews in return for much money and various goods that would be sent to Germany in his capacity as vice president of "The Committee for Aid and Rescue" in Budapest during the Nazi occupation. Kastner survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel. In 1954 he presented a libel suit against Malkiel Grunwald who accused him of treason and of indirect responsibility for the deaths of the Jews of Hungary. The series deals, as mentioned, with this trial that aroused a public controversy.