Four diplomats who risked their careers to save Jews during the Holocaust will be remembered in the documentary “Diplomats for the Damned,” to air over the History Channel in the United States on Nov. 26. Chronicled in the documentary are Hiram Bingham of the United States, Aristides de Sousa Mendes of Portugal, Charles Lutz of Switzerland and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz of Germany.
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