sentences:  Riegner was office manager of the WJC in Geneva.He was indirectly informed about the German plans for the final solution by German industrialist Eduard Schulte.Through his British and American diplomatic channels (Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of the American Jewish Congress in New York and Sydney Silverman, a Jewish Member of Parliament and Chairman of the British Section, World Jewish Congress) Riegner sent the following message to his contacts via the British Foreign Office and the State Department in Washington