1st Edition

Self-Financing Genocide The Gold Train, the Becher Case and the Wealth of Hungarian Jews

By Gábor Kádár, Zoltán Vági Copyright 2004
440 Pages
by Central European University Press

440 Pages
by Central European University Press

Discusses the process of the economic annihilation of the Jews in Hungary, who– from the economic point of view – were more influential than any other Jewish community in Europe. Following the German occupation in March 1944 the collaborating Hungarian government attempted to assert its claim concerning the complete confiscation of Jewish assets at all stages of the road leading to... Read more
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, LIST OF TABLES, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PREFACE, PROLOGUE: The specifics of the genocide against Hungarian Jews, PART I. RATIONALITY AND HOLOCAUST: SELF-FINANCING GENOCIDE, PART II. LEGEND AND REALITY: THE STORY OF KURT BECHER, PART III. THE STORY OF THE HUNGARIAN JEWISH GOLD TRAIN, ILLUSTRATIONS, APPENDIX, ABBREVIATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES, INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES, SUBJECT INDEX

Biography

Gábor Kádár received his Ph.D. from Debrecen University, Hungary in 2004.

Zoltán Vági received his Ph.D. from the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary in 2003.