British intelligence dismissed reports of the Nazi extermination of Polish Jews during World War II, according to a new account. Britain’s intelligence command decided that reports brought by two Polish emissaries to Britain lacked credibility, and decided not to inform then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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