| Synopsis: |
After the Blitzkrieg invasion of France by the Germans in1940 a junior Iranian diplomat, the aristocratic Abdol-Hossein Sardari, more or less accidentally found himself incharge of Iran's legation in Paris. He immediately set aboutcultivating German and Vichy officials in order to protectthe Iranian Jewish community in the country. In a dangerousbut brilliant manoeuvre he met the absurd racial purity lawshead-on to claim that despite the fact that some Iranianshad followed the teachings of Moses for thousands of years,they had always been of Iranian stock and therefore were`Mosaique' not `Juden'. This book includes - amongst itsmany fascinating documents - the Nazi officialcorrespondence seeking `expert opinion' on this troublesomeargument! |