Spared lives

15 Jul. 1944

Telegram nº 42 from the MNE to the Portuguese Legation in Budapest authorizing the concession of Portuguese consular passports to the refugees who sought the protection of the Portuguese government and recommending that any document addressed to the German Minister “should carefully avoid naming nationalities and any allusion to refuge Legation which must be replaced by a vaguer formula such as “requested protection Portuguese Government to go to Portuguese territory”; this telegram also orders that the Charge d’affaires “should not imply that we have undertaken accept new [Hungarian) Minister

(in Lisbon) in exchange departure refugees, totally separate issues”.

(AHD – Cipher, Collection of Telegrams to Budapest)