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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: The Fate of Hungary's Jews
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.120102.16015@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 12:01:02 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.revisionism
- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: Auschwitz,Eichmann,Hungary,Ruthenia,Sztojay
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- Holocaust deniers continue to maintain that there was no cohesive or
- deliberate Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews, no matter how inclusive or
- pervasive the evidence may be. This brief note about the situation in
- Hungary once again makes the Nazi plan crystal clear:
-
- "The fate of the Jewish settlement in Hungary -- one of the largest in
- Europe -- was a desolating climax to the tragic Holocaust period. Before
- Hitler came to power in 1933 there were about 800,000 Jews in Greater
- Hungary, 200,000 of them living in Budapest where, despite an endemic
- anti-Semitism, they were at the forefront of the cultural, scientific, and
- economic life of the country. Hungary was one of the first nations to fall
- under Hitler's sway; the obscene speed with which it joined the Nazis was
- appropriately termed the `Gaderine rush.' Hitler rewarded Hungary's
- collaborating government by permitting it to take over Ruthenia from
- Czechoslovakia. Fifty thousand Jews in the annexed areas perished as
- Hungarians collaborated with the Nazi occupiers.
-
- Hungary ... chose the wrong side in teaming up with Hitler, whose early
- victories had turned to ashes by 1943. The Hungarian government ... sensed
- the turn in fortune. As news of the Nazi rout in Russia poured in, he
- [Admiral Horthy, head of state] began to twist and turn to move away from
- the Axis, and he leaked his intentions to the Allies. One of his several
- maneuvers to demonstrate that his loyalty to the Nazis was pliable was to
- delay the deportation of the Jews in the annexed provinces and in Hungary
- itself.
-
- Hitler ... was not taken in. On March 19, 1944, in Operation Margaret, Nazi
- tanks rumbled over the Danube Bridge into Budapest, paratroop units landed
- at airports; all strategic military and industrial points were invested,
- and a new puppet government under Dome Sztojay was installed. The
- deportations were substantially accelerated. Late in April, a month after
- Hitler took over Hungary, 4,000 Jews were despatched by train to Auschwitz.
- Between mid-May and July 9, 437,000 more followed, until few but the Jews
- of Budapest were left. For their destruction, Adolf Eichmann was chosen to
- take charge. He too knew that the Nazi cause was lost, but he was
- determined that, all else failing, at least the objectives of the Final
- Solution would be fulfilled. He had prepared Mauthausen, Auschwitz, and
- other death camps in Austria and Poland to receive the one million Jews who
- still remained alive after the extermination campaigns in the
- Nazi-conquered countries.
-
- Eichmann was proud of his Hungarian assignment and the faith in him that
- his Fuehrer had exhibited. Although the Russians were already storming the
- outer Hungarian province on their certain way to Budapest, Eichmann exulted
- that he would at least fulfill his mission. Only a quarter of Hungary's
- nearly one million prewar Jewish population, mainly in Budapest, would live
- into the postwar world ..."
-
-
- Extracted from---------------------------------------------------
- "THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED", Abram L. Sachar (New York: St.
- Martin's/Marek, 1983.
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-
- For an extensive bibliography dealing with the Holocaust, and containing over
- 1100 citations, contact kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca - it will be sent to you
- by return email. Additions to this bibliography are actively solicited.
-
-
- --
- "November 3, 1943, Code Name: Erntefest, Harvest Festival. Seventeen
- thousand Jews, rounded up after the final collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto,
- were machine-gunned. The victims were lined up in front of open ditches
- which they had dug for their own graves." [Maidanek KL. Sachar]
-