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The Ambassador Who Died on the Operating Table: 44 Days in Madrid
The Ambassador Who Died on the Operating Table: 44 Days in Madrid
A German ambassador dies on an operating table in Madrid six weeks after arriving in Spain in the spring of 1943 - the official cause: a failed appendix surgery, but his widow believed otherwise, and the question she raised would remain unsettled for more than sixty years. How did a man who delivered ultimatums linked to deportations to Auschwitz and described his embassy as "a hydra with many heads" end up dead in 44 days - accident, conspiracy, or something in between?
In this episode, we follow the forty-four days between…
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