Tony Matthews is a Welsh-Australian author and historian who has
dedicated almost his entire adult life to writing and researching
Australian and world history. He also writes extensively on
military and espionage history with a specific emphasis on both
world wars. He is the author of almost forty books, including
several novels.
While still at school, Tony became distressed for a considerable
period when he first learned about the Holocaust. He subsequently
discovered that his father, Emrys Matthews, had been one of the
British troops who had liberated the notorious Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp on 15 April 1945, where thousands of
starving survivors, many of them riddled with typhus, were being
held after the death-marches from other camps such as Auschwitz.
When Tony later discovered that significant Jewish migration from
Germany and Austria could have taken place successfully in 1938 and
1939, therefore, mitigating the Holocaust to a considerable degree,
he became determined to write a book clearly describing the failure
of the international community to prevent, or alleviate, the Nazi
genocide.
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