Article: A LESSON SOMETIMES LEARNED: THE STRENGTH OF MAN'S HUMANITY.(MAIN)

Byline: TOM TEEPEN

In case you begin to wonder, yes, this is a Christmas column.

The International Red Cross has released documents from its World War II files showing the organization knew at the time that what we've come to know as the Holocaust was underway in Nazi concentration camps.

The Red Cross kept quiet through the war. It feared that raising the alarm would compromise its neutrality and end its ability to inspect prisoner of war camps.

See? A Christmas column.

Here and there -- in Hungary, Romania -- the Red Cross did manage to save thousands of Jewish lives quietly where opportunity occurred.

The Red ...

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