The 40 pages of information the men passed to Jewish officials when they arrived in Slovakia on 24 April, which included the information that arrivals were being gassed and not resettled, became known as the Vrba Wetzler report.
Fears are so pervasive that arrivals at the Kansai International Airport in Osaka, 360 miles from Fukushima, fell 47 percent in May.
The police reckon that arrivals last year ran at four times the rate of the year before, and there has been another surge this summer.
Naturally, passengers passed through Paris on their way from, say, Lyon to New York, but there was no strategy for ensuring that arrivals and departures were organised efficiently.
On the arrivals level, many people waiting for friends and relatives to emerge from the customs and immigrations checkpoints complained that some of the information screens were not working and that there had been no signs telling them that arrivals had been switched to the new building.
British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, BMI and other airliners are preparing to rebook tens of thousands of passengers after Heathrow and Gatwick, Britain's two largest airports asked carriers to switch customers to alternative dates amid fears that arrivals halls will be logjammed.
