Self-Financing Genocide : : The Gold Train, the Becher Case and the Wealth of Hungarian Jews / / Zoltán Vági, Gábor Kádár.
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 concer...
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Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- 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
- 1. Hungarians and Jews
- 2. The demography and sociology of the Jews before the German occupation of Hungary
- 3. The economic status of Hungarian Jews
- 4. The wealth of the Hungarian Jews
- 5. The wealth of Hungarian Jews in international comparison
- 6. From crisis to crisis: Anti-Semitic concepts and practice (1919–1936)
- 7. Race-protectionism, the wealth of Jews, Aryanization (1936–1944)
- 8. The road to the Holocaust: Hungarian Jews during the Second World War (1939–1944)
- 9. 1944—The looting of Jewish wealth and its main problems: Speed, legal controversies, institutional rivalry, and the Germans
- 10. Lofty goals and disillusioning reality
- 11. Self-financing genocide 1: From death camps to budget, or: The Reich, occupied Europe, and Operation Reinhard
- 12. Self-financing genocide 2: Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German budget, and the postwar fate of Hungarian Jewish property and the Melmer deposits
- 13. Self-financing genocide 3: The profit to the Hungarian budget
- 14. Multiple plunder: The fate of Hungarian Jewish assets at the end of the war and after 1945
- Part II. Legend and Reality: The Story of Kurt Becher
- 1. The character and the sources
- 2. Soldier, businessman, bureaucrat, mass murderer? Becher’s career until 1944
- 3. Artificial chaos: Becher’s position in Hungary
- 4. In the gateway to success: The Weiss Manfréd affair
- 5. The Kasztner affair
- 6. Stopping deportations and death marches from Budapest
- 7. Halting the mass extermination of the Jews
- 8. Becher: Savior of the Pest ghetto and Chief Inspector of the concentration camps?
- 9. Evacuation: Removal of the Hungarian industry to the Reich
- 10. Becher’s personal gain
- 11. Assessment of Becher’s character
- Part III. The Story of the Hungarian Jewish Gold Train
- 1. Assembling the contents of the Gold Train
- 2. The train’s journey
- 3. The trucks and Toldy’s journey
- 4. International legal background and problems of definition
- 5. The fate of those contents of the Gold Train which fell into American hands (1945–1957)
- 6. Hungarian attempts to recover the contents of the Gold Train
- 7. Critique of U.S. restitution policy and practice pursued in relation to the Gold Train
- 8. The fate of the treasure that fell under French control
- 9. The value of the contents of the Gold Train
- 10. The historiography of the Gold Train
- Illustrations
- Appendix
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index of Personal Names
- Index of Geographical Names
- Subject Index