LEADER 06442nam 22007814a 450 001 9910777790803321 005 20240102145059.0 010 $a9786155211034 010 $a978-6-15521-103-4 010 $a615-5211-03-5 010 $a1-281-37696-5 010 $a9786611376963 010 $a1-4294-2627-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9786155211034 035 $a(CKB)1000000000469561 035 $a(EBL)3137216 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000243783 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188536 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243783 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10160039 035 $a(PQKB)11578446 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137216 035 $a(OCoLC)191952833 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48211 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10152478 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL137696 035 $a(OCoLC)815571259 035 $a(DE-B1597)633157 035 $a(DE-B1597)9786155211034 035 $a(dli)HEB08621 035 $a(MiU)KOHA0000000000000000002816 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000469561 100 $a20040206d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSelf-financing genocide$b[electronic resource] $ethe gold train, the Becher case and the wealth of Hungarian Jews /$fby Ga?bor Ka?da?r and Zolta?n Va?gi ; [translated by Eniko? Koncz, Jim Tucker and Andra?s Ka?da?r] 210 $aBudapest ;$aNew York $cCentral European University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (439 p.) 300 $a"Certain parts were published in Hungarian as Aranyvonat ... by Osiris, Budapest in 2001"--T.p. verso. 311 $a963-9241-53-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [387]-398) and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tTable of Contents --$tList of Illustrations --$tList of Tables --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tPrologue: The specifics of the genocide against Hungarian Jews --$tPart I. Rationality and Holocaust: Self-financing Genocide --$t1. Hungarians and Jews --$t2. The demography and sociology of the Jews before the German occupation of Hungary --$t3. The economic status of Hungarian Jews --$t4. The wealth of the Hungarian Jews --$t5. The wealth of Hungarian Jews in international comparison --$t6. From crisis to crisis: Anti-Semitic concepts and practice (1919?1936) --$t7. Race-protectionism, the wealth of Jews, Aryanization (1936?1944) --$t8. The road to the Holocaust: Hungarian Jews during the Second World War (1939?1944) --$t9. 1944?The looting of Jewish wealth and its main problems: Speed, legal controversies, institutional rivalry, and the Germans --$t10. Lofty goals and disillusioning reality --$t11. Self-financing genocide 1: From death camps to budget, or: The Reich, occupied Europe, and Operation Reinhard --$t12. Self-financing genocide 2: Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German budget, and the postwar fate of Hungarian Jewish property and the Melmer deposits --$t13. Self-financing genocide 3: The profit to the Hungarian budget --$t14. Multiple plunder: The fate of Hungarian Jewish assets at the end of the war and after 1945 --$tPart II. Legend and Reality: The Story of Kurt Becher --$t1. The character and the sources --$t2. Soldier, businessman, bureaucrat, mass murderer? Becher?s career until 1944 --$t3. Artificial chaos: Becher?s position in Hungary --$t4. In the gateway to success: The Weiss Manfréd affair --$t5. The Kasztner affair --$t6. Stopping deportations and death marches from Budapest --$t7. Halting the mass extermination of the Jews --$t8. Becher: Savior of the Pest ghetto and Chief Inspector of the concentration camps? --$t9. Evacuation: Removal of the Hungarian industry to the Reich --$t10. Becher?s personal gain --$t11. Assessment of Becher?s character --$tPart III. The Story of the Hungarian Jewish Gold Train --$t1. Assembling the contents of the Gold Train --$t2. The train?s journey --$t3. The trucks and Toldy?s journey --$t4. International legal background and problems of definition --$t5. The fate of those contents of the Gold Train which fell into American hands (1945?1957) --$t6. Hungarian attempts to recover the contents of the Gold Train --$t7. Critique of U.S. restitution policy and practice pursued in relation to the Gold Train --$t8. The fate of the treasure that fell under French control --$t9. The value of the contents of the Gold Train --$t10. The historiography of the Gold Train --$tIllustrations --$tAppendix --$tList of Abbreviations --$tBibliography --$tIndex of Personal Names --$tIndex of Geographical Names --$tSubject Index 330 $aDiscusses 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 the extermination camps. The cooperation with the Germans proved to be the most problematic in this area. The story of the Jewish Gold Train is a relatively small but all the more emblematic chapter of the economic annihilation. The circumstances of the freight's assembling, the German-Hungarian conflicts concerning the train, the looting attempts, the fate of the assets seized by the Allies (double victimization of the survivors) provide the reader with an insight into the history of the repeated looting of the Hungarian Jewry. 606 $aJews$xPersecutions$zHungary 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zHungary 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConfiscations and contributions$zHungary 606 $aJewish property$zHungary 607 $aHungary$xEthnic relations 610 $a20th century, Holocaust, Hungary, Jewish studies, Jews, World War II. 615 0$aJews$xPersecutions 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConfiscations and contributions 615 0$aJewish property 676 $a940.53/18132/09439 700 $aKa?da?r$b Ga?bor$01016742 701 $aVa?gi$b Zolta?n$01016743 701 $aKa?da?r$b Ga?bor$01016742 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777790803321 996 $aSelf-financing genocide$92380604 997 $aUNINA