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

"Recounts the economic annihilation of the Hungarian Jews, who - from an economic point of view - were most 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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kádár, Gábor
Other Authors: Vági, Zoltán
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hungarian
Published: New York : Central European University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Recounts the economic annihilation of the Hungarian Jews, who - from an economic point of view - were most 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 along the road leading to the extermination camps." "The book analyzes the role played by SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Kurt Becher, one of the most controversial and mysterious figures in the Hungarian and universal history of the Holocaust. Becher, delegated to Hungary by Himmler, administered and benefited from the confiscation of an enormous amount of Jewish assets."--Jacket
Item Description:"Certain parts were published in Hungarian as Aranyvonat ... by Osiris, Budapest in 2001"--Title page verso
Physical Description:1 online resource (440 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9786155211034