It is one of the enduring mysteries of the second world war. More than
800 Jews based in this hospital in the middle of Nazi Berlin survived the war,
seemingly — and bizarrely — protected by Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the
Final Solution. So who were they and why were they saved?
Russian soldiers fighting their way through the rubble of Berlin in the last days of the war turned the corner of Iranische Strasse, in the district of Wedding, and came across an elegant building almost intact. Fanning out to search the structure, the Russians ransacked the place, room by room. Medical …
