N'importe quel historien sérieux connait Karl Lutz et son épouse, deux héros plus important devant l'histoire que Raoul Wallenberg, ainsi que l'appui aux Juifs apporté par Maximilian Jaeger

U.S. Secretary of State Hull issue warnings to Hungary's Admiral Horthy: the message from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Regent Horthy through the Swiss minister (Karl Lutz's boss) gives an Ultimatum for the 29 at the latest to end the deportation of Jewish people, failing which "Hungary would be treated in a way that a civilized nation had never been treated before".