documents on the Final Solution From the files of MI5 in the Public Record Office, London summary by David Irving [ Index to Joel Brand file on this website ] [In the nature of a Final report on the Joel Brand Mission:]

On July 12, 1944 somebody (“Sender”) reported from Hungary to Palestine on the failure of the Brand mission.

The letter was intercepted by British Palestine Censorship authorities, who summarised its content in these terms – . . . that Joel [Brand] went to Istanbul about two months previously and that the original idea was that he should reveal the German proposals to the Jewish Agency people in Istanbul who were to submit them to the ‘representatives of Selig [England] and Stefan [USA]‘.

He was to find out if this plan was likely to materialize, and to