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The chief of the SS sought to win asylum for himself and 200 leading Nazis in the final days of World War II by offering cash and the freedom of 3,500 Jews, according to British intelligence documents released last year.

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According to the documents, details of which have been held in the secret files of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency, the concentration camp inmates were to be sent to Switzerland in two trainloads. The offer was made by Himmler and orchestrated by his intelligence chief, Walter Schellenberg.

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