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Foley: the Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews

Foley: the Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews

Michael Smith

A biography of Frank Foley, who worked as a passport control officer in Berlin during the Second World War, written by the author of NEW CLOAK, OLD DAGGER. The passport office was a front for Foley's role as MI6 head of station and he rescued thousands of people from the concentration camps, hiding them in his home and obtaining forged passports.
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Frank Foley worked as Passport Control Officer in Berlin during the war and helped thousands of Jews to escape from Germany. At the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann he was described as a Scarlet Pimpernel , risking his own life to save Jews threatened with death by the Nazis. In fact, his post at the Passport Office was a front for his real role as MI6 head of station. Despite having no diplomatic immunity and being liable to arrest at any time, he went into the concentration camps to get Jews out, he hid them in his home and helped them to get forged passports. One Jewish aid worker estimated that he saved tens of thousands of people from the Holocaust.

Michael Smith has researched and vividly written one of the greatest unknown heroic stories of the Second World War.

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Title - Foley: the Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews

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Author - Michael Smith

ISBN 13 - 9780340718513

Imprint - Coronet Books

Publisher - Hodder & Stoughton

Date Published - 16/09/1999

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 112 x 22 x 179mm

Weight - 217 g

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