Holocaust In Hungary Analysis
Randolph L Braham describes the Holocaust in Hungary as being “replete with paradoxes.” Explain and evaluate this statement in relation to both the German policy towards the Jews in Hungary in March to July 1944 and the Hungarian Jewish response.
The Holocaust in Hungary represents its own late, brutal, chapter in the full, appalling story of the Nazi genocide of the Jews of Europe. Conducted with an alliance of diplomacy and cold-blooded, ruthless efficiency, it was in some respects, the apotheosis of the Nazi death machine. Typical of the Holocaust in general, the events were disturbingly inhuman, but in this instance they were particularly noteworthy for the speed in which they took place. Whereas the previous path of the Holocaust elsewhere may have been – to borrow Karl Schleunes …show more content…
BIBLIOGRAPHY
David Cesarani, Randolph L Braha,, Yehuda Don, Richard Breitman, Shlomo Aronson, Asher Cohen, Robert Rozett, Attila Pok, Tony Kushner, Dina Parat, Yehuda Bauer Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in Hungary 1944 (Oxford: Berg, 1997)
Peter Longerich Heinrich Himmler, trans. Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
The Holocaust in Hungary” National Committee for Attending Deportees, accessed January 5th 2013 http://degob.org/index.php?showarticle=2031
Karl A Schleunes The Twisted Road to Auschwitz; Nazi Policy Toward German Jews 1933-1939 (Illinois: The University of Illinois Press, 1990)
Yitzhak Arad Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999)
David Cesarani Eichmann His Life and Crimes (London, Random House 2005),
Saul Friedlander The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 (London: Weidenfield and Nicolson)
The Destruction of the Jews of Hungary” Holocaust Research Project, accessed January 4th 2013 http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/DestructionofHungarianJews.html
Ian Kershaw Hitler (London: Penguin Books,
The Holocaust in Hungary represents its own late, brutal, chapter in the full, appalling story of the Nazi genocide of the Jews of Europe. Conducted with an alliance of diplomacy and cold-blooded, ruthless efficiency, it was in some respects, the apotheosis of the Nazi death machine. Typical of the Holocaust in general, the events were disturbingly inhuman, but in this instance they were particularly noteworthy for the speed in which they took place. Whereas the previous path of the Holocaust elsewhere may have been – to borrow Karl Schleunes …show more content…
BIBLIOGRAPHY
David Cesarani, Randolph L Braha,, Yehuda Don, Richard Breitman, Shlomo Aronson, Asher Cohen, Robert Rozett, Attila Pok, Tony Kushner, Dina Parat, Yehuda Bauer Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in Hungary 1944 (Oxford: Berg, 1997)
Peter Longerich Heinrich Himmler, trans. Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
The Holocaust in Hungary” National Committee for Attending Deportees, accessed January 5th 2013 http://degob.org/index.php?showarticle=2031
Karl A Schleunes The Twisted Road to Auschwitz; Nazi Policy Toward German Jews 1933-1939 (Illinois: The University of Illinois Press, 1990)
Yitzhak Arad Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999)
David Cesarani Eichmann His Life and Crimes (London, Random House 2005),
Saul Friedlander The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 (London: Weidenfield and Nicolson)
The Destruction of the Jews of Hungary” Holocaust Research Project, accessed January 4th 2013 http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/DestructionofHungarianJews.html
Ian Kershaw Hitler (London: Penguin Books,