Ungarn - Das umstrittene Kapitel des Holocaust
Hungary - The Controversial Chapter of the Holocaust
Author(s): Randolph L. Braham Contributor(s): Jana Starek (Editor)
Subject(s): Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien
Keywords: Hungary; Germay; Jews; holocaust; Jewish political elites;
Summary/Abstract: The circumstances of the extermination of the Hungarian Jews on the eve of the Allied victory – at a time when the secrets of Auschwitz were already known to the political elites (even in Hungary) – remain a mystery within the history of the Holocaust. In his lecture, Randolph Braham established the central elements of the questions that remain and offered an analysis. It is necessary to consider the wider context in order to see how it was possible for this unthinkable and unforeseeable catastrophe for the Jewish Hungarians to take place. The lecture focused amongst other issues on the historical roots of the different considerations and miscalculations (even illusions) by the elites in Germany and Hungary in their desire to achieve particular political and military goals as well as on the various strategies employed by the Jewish political elites in Hungary and Slovakia (both traditional and Zionist) in their attempts to rescue their communities.
Journal: S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation.
- Issue Year: 1/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 67-80
- Page Count: 14
- Language: German