Article: Letter: Flight of the Angel of Budapest

Sir: I was intrigued by Phil Davison's article "The Angel of Budapest" (2 May), but I think the role of Angel Sanz-Britz in saving 5,200 Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest has been exaggerated. Almost none of these people would have eventually been saved, but for the extraordinary heroism of Giorgio Perlasca, the Italian who set himself up as bogus Spanish charge d'affaires after the departure of Sanz-Britz.

Giorgio Perlasca told me personally in 1992 that as far as Angel Sanz-Britz, the real Spanish charge d'affaires in Budapest in 1944, is concerned:

1. Sanz-Britz had ...

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