Self-financing genocide: the gold train, the Becher case and the wealth of Hungarian Jews

Kádár, Gábor

Self-financing genocide: the gold train, the Becher case and the wealth of Hungarian Jews

Gábor Kádár, Zoltán Vági and Gábor. Aranyvonat Kádár

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Frontmatter
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page ix)
LIST OF TABLES (page xi)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xiii)
PREFACE (page xvii)
PROLOGUE: The specifics of the genocide against Hungarian Jews (page xxi)
PART I. RATIONALITY AND HOLOCAUST: SELF-FINANCING GENOCIDE (page 3)
- 1. Hungarians and Jews (page 3)
- 2. The demography and sociology of the Jews before the German occupation of Hungary (page 9)
- 3. The economic status of Hungarian Jews (page 13)
- 4. The wealth of the Hungarian Jews (page 22)
- 5. The wealth of Hungarian Jews in international comparison (page 26)
- 6. From crisis to crisis: Anti-Semitic concepts and practice (1919-1936) (page 33)
- 7. Race-protectionism, the wealth of Jews, Aryanization (1936-1944) (page 50)
- 8. The road to the Holocaust: Hungarian Jews during the Second World War (1939-1944) (page 70)
- 9. 1944---The looting of Jewish wealth and its main problems: Speed, legal controversies, institutional rivalry, and the Germans (page 75)
- 10. Lofty goals and disillusioning reality (page 88)
- 11. Self-financing genocide 1: From death camps to budget, or: The Reich, occupied Europe, and Operation Reinhard (page 111)
- 12. Self-financing genocide 2: Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German budget, and the postwar fate of Hungarian Jewish property and the Meimer deposits (page 124)
- 13. Self-financing genocide 3: The profit to the Hungarian budget (page 135)
- 14. Multiple plunder: The fate of Hungarian Jewish assets at the end of the war and after 1945 (page 143)
PART II. LEGEND AND REALITY: THE STORY OF KURT BECHER (page 175)
- 1. The character and the sources (page 175)
- 2. Soldier, businessman, bureaucrat, mass murderer? Becher's career until 1944 (page 179)
- 3. Artificial chaos: Becher's position in Hungary (page 192)
- 4. In the gateway to success: The Weiss Manfréd affair (page 195)
- 5. The Kasztner affair (page 209)
- 6. Stopping deportations and death marches from Budapest (page 219)
- 7. Halting the mass extermination of the Jews (page 225)
- 8. Becher: Savior of the Pest ghetto and Chief Inspector of the concentration camps? (page 233)
- 9. Evacuation: Removal of the Hungarian industry to the Reich (page 244)
- 10. Becher's personal gain (page 249)
- 11. Assessment of Becher's character (page 257)
PART III. THE STORY OF THE HUNGARIAN JEWISH GOLD TRAIN (page 281)
- 1. Assembling the contents of the Gold Train (page 281)
- 2. The train's journey (page 287)
- 3. The trucks and Toldy's journey (page 294)
- 4. International legal background and problems of definition (page 296)
- 5. The fate of those contents of the Gold Train which fell into American hands (1945-1957) (page 302)
- 6. Hungarian attempts to recover the contents of the Gold Train (page 318)
- 7. Critique of U.S. restitution policy and practice pursued in relation to the Gold Train (page 322)
- 8. The fate of the treasure that fell under French control (page 332)
- 9. The value of the contents of the Gold Train (page 340)
- 10. The historiography of the Gold Train (page 345)
ILLUSTRATIONS (page 371)
APPENDIX (page 379)
ABBREVIATIONS (page 383)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 387)
INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES (page 399)
INDEX OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES (page 405)
SUBJECT INDEX (page 411)

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Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
SEER	84.2 (Apr. 2006): 366-368	http://www.jstor.org/stable/4214302
SR	64.3 (Autumn 2005): 645-646	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3650162

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Published: 2004

Publisher: Central European University Press

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Self-financing genocide: the gold train, the Becher case and the wealth of Hungarian Jews

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