- Headline
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Hungary Gives Up To Jews
- Publication Date
- Sunday, July 9, 1944
- Historical Event
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Deportation of Hungarian Jews Begins
This database includes 630 articles about this event - Article Type
- Page Section and Number
- 4
- Author/Byline
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- Article Text
- Hungary, which was the last refuge of the Jews of Europe, had to turn over its own Jews and its refugees to the Nazis when Germany took complete control of the country to prevent its defection in the face of Russia's drive westward. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden has just confirmed in the House of Commons the fact that the customary Nazi massacres and deportations to death camps are under way.
The Jewish population of Hungary at the outbreak of the war was placed at 444,567. How many Jews sought refuge there from Germany, Austria, and conquered countries is not known, but the total must have reached 100,000 or more. Hungary is said to have had the last organized Jewish community in Europe.
As the Allied ring of iron closes in, the Nazis seem determined to complete their massacre of the Jews of Europe. Swiss sources, apparently well authenticated, report just revealed information of two secret "model extermination camps for Jews" at Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Upper Silesia. These camps are reported to have been in operation for two years, during which the execution and "disposal" of 1,175,000 Jews were effected "without a hitch." It is to these camps that the Hungarian Jews are being deported, 30 per cent "losses" occurring en route.
Information of these two secret camps is given in a 9,000-word report by the Rev. Paul Vogt, of Berne, head of an internationally known refugee organization. The barbarism with which the Jews are killed would be unbelievable were it not for the fact that similar practices, well authenticated and even boasted of by the Nazis themselves, have occurred throughout the Nazi regime.
It requires so many Germans to perpetrate all of the many Nazi crimes that the effort to differentiate between the responsibility of leaders and people falls flat. In any event, post-war trials and executions promise to occupy courts for months if promised justice is done. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Cecelia B.
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Bibliography
Braham, Randolph L. and Miller, Scott, eds. The Nazis’ Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2002.
Braham, Randolph L. The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.
Braham, Randolph L. “Hungarian, German, and Jewish Calculations and Miscalculations in the Last Chapter of the Holocaust.” Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010.
Braham, Randolph L. “A Post-Mortem of the Holocaust in Hungary: A Probing Interpretation of the Causes.” Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, 2012.
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, ed. Hungary and the Holocaust: Confrontations with the Past: Symposium Proceedings. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001.
Vági, Zoltán, László Csősz, and Gábor Kádár. The Holocaust in Hungary: Evolution of a Genocide. Washington, DC: AltaMira Press, in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2013.
