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Col. Jose Arturo Castellanos
Salvador Army
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Jose Arturo Castellanos was a Salvadorian army colonel, Contreras was assigned as a diplomat in Geneva, Switzerland during the Second World War. In partnership with Gyorgi Mandl, a Jewish-Hungarian businessman, the colonel was able to save about 40,000 Jews and Central Europeans from the harsh Nazi by giving them fake Salvadorian visas.