Self-financing genocide
| Titel: | Self-financing genocide : the gold train, the Becher case and the wealth of Hungarian Jews / by Gábor Kádár and Zoltán Vági |
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| Verfasser: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | Budapest : Central European Univ. Press, 2004 |
| Umfang: | XXVI, 413 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Aranyvonat |
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| ISBN: | 9639241539 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Illustrations
- p. ix
- List of Tables
- p. xi
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Preface
- p. xvii
- Prologue: The specifics of the genocide against Hungarian Jews
- p. xxi
- Part I.
- Rationality and Holocaust: Self-Financing Genocide
- p. 3
- 1.
- Hungarians and Jews
- p. 3
- 2.
- The demography and sociology of the Jews before the German occupation of Hungary
- p. 9
- 3.
- The economic status of Hungarian Jews
- p. 13
- 4.
- The wealth of the Hungarian Jews
- p. 22
- 5.
- The wealth of Hungarian Jews in international comparison
- p. 26
- 6.
- From crisis to crisis: Anti-Semitic concepts and practice (1919-1936)
- p. 33
- 7.
- Race-protectionism, the wealth of Jews, Aryanization (1936-1944)
- p. 50
- 8.
- The road to the Holocaust: Hungarian Jews during the Second World War (1939-1944)
- p. 70
- 9.
- 1944--The looting of Jewish wealth and its main problems: Speed, legal controversies, institutional rivalry, and the Germans
- p. 75
- 10.
- Lofty goals and disillusioning reality
- p. 88
- 11.
- Self-financing genocide 1: From death camps to budget, or: The Reich, occupied Europe, and Operation Reinhard
- p. 111
- 12.
- Self-financing genocide 2: Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German budget, and the postwar fate of Hungarian Jewish property and the Melmer deposits
- p. 124
- 13.
- Self-financing genocide 3: The profit to the Hungarian budget
- p. 135
- 14.
- Multiple plunder: The fate of Hungarian Jewish assets at the end of the war and after 1945
- p. 143
- Part II.
- Legend and Reality: The Story of Kurt Becher
- p. 175
- 1.
- The character and the sources
- p. 175
- 2.
- Soldier, businessman, bureaucrat, mass murderer? Becher's career until 1944
- p. 179
- 3.
- Artificial chaos: Becher's position in Hungary
- p. 192
- 4.
- In the gateway to success: The Weiss Manfred affair
- p. 195
- 5.
- The Kasztner affair
- p. 209
- 6.
- Stopping deportations and death marches from Budapest
- p. 219
- 7.
- Halting the mass extermination of the Jews
- p. 225
- 8.
- Becher: Savior of the Pest ghetto and Chief Inspector of the concentration camps?
- p. 233
- 9.
- Evacuation: Removal of the Hungarian industry to the Reich
- p. 244
- 10.
- Becher's personal gain
- p. 249
- 11.
- Assessment of Becher's character
- p. 257
- Part III.
- The Story of the Hungarian Jewish Gold Train
- p. 281
- 1.
- Assembling the contents of the Gold Train
- p. 281
- 2.
- The train's journey
- p. 287
- 3.
- The trucks and Toldy's journey
- p. 294
- 4.
- International legal background and problems of definition
- p. 296
- 5.
- The fate of those contents of the Gold Train which fell into American hands (1945-1957)
- p. 302
- 6.
- Hungarian attempts to recover the contents of the Gold Train
- p. 318
- 7.
- Critique of U.S. restitution policy and practice pursued in relation to the Gold Train
- p. 322
- 8.
- The fate of the treasure that fell under French control
- p. 332
- 9.
- The value of the contents of the Gold Train
- p. 340
- 10.
- The historiography of the Gold Train
- p. 345
