The tragic irony of the Holocaust, that Jews were victims of politicized conspiracy theories, is to be sought in the politicization of the Holocaust itself among the victims and among their various kinsmen. One of the rescuers, Rezsö Kasztner, was actively involved in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, and this brought about his assassination. The OSS, too, at least in the person of Charles Dwork, tried to make the “Jewish case” therein a separate subject, but the prevalent refusal to allow the Jews a specific standing among Hitler's victims limited his role considerably. Kasztner trapped himself and was trapped by others of his own people as a part of the “rescue debate” that had already started during his rescue activities and became perhaps the best-known case afterward in relationship to the politicization of the debate by the Zionist Right, Left, and the ultraorthodox.

In fact, it was not just Kasztner who was trapped – and assassinated – due to his rescue efforts as compared to the enormous dimensions of the Holocaust in Hungary. In fact, a number of self-traps had been set by rescue activists for themselves, for the Zionists, and for the Allies ever since the Europa Plan negotiations by creating the impression that the Germans (or at least Heinrich Himmler) were ready to deal, and thus important rescue options may have been lost.