Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews

A Documentary History of the Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, Spring-Summer 1944

Judit Fejes Schulmann, David Alan Rich, Judit Molnár (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

382 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-112-4 (ISBN)

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An illuminating chronicle of the concentration, ghettoization, and deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944-1945, Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews presents, for the first time in English, the key primary sources from the period, documenting how this genocidal program was facilitated by both the Nazi regime and the Hungarian state.

Between May and July 1944, over 440,000 Jews were deported from the Hungarian provinces to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where 330,000 perished. Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews offers a fresh perspective on these events, examining not only the Nazi regime but also the complicity of the Hungarian state, particularly its Gendarmerie, in facilitating these deportations. This book presents for the first time in English the essential, unabridged, primary sources on the concentration, ghettoization, and deportation of Hungarian Jews. Of particular significance are progress reports of Gendarmerie Lieutenant Colonel László Ferenczy, Hungary’s liaison to Adolf Eichmann, and the previously unpublished reports from two cities, Ungvár and Szolnok. These documents provide crucial insight into one of the darkest chapters in European history, making this book a much-needed chronicle of the Holocaust.

Judit Fejes Schulmann holds a PhD in twentieth-century Hungarian and European history from the Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen, Hungary. After working as a research historian at the History Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, she subsequently investigated war crimes committed during World War II as a researcher in the Office of Special Investigations of the U.S. justice department, a position she held for twenty-four years until she retired.

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Text

Notes on Translations

Place Names

Abbreviations

Introduction

List of Documents

Document Sections:

The German Occupation

Document 1

Hungarian Preparations

Document 2–36

German Preparations for Ghettoization and Deportation

Documents 37–50

Hungarian Documents on Ghettoization and Deportation

Documents 51–69

German Documents on Ghettoization and Deportation

Documents 70–78

Suspension: Hungarian Documents

Documents 79–88

Suspension: German Documents

Documents 89–99

Conclusion

Appendix I: "Košice List" — Deportation Trains Registered When Passing Through the Border Town of Košice from Hungary to Slovakia

Appendix II: "Glaser List" — The Glaser List of Hungarian Special Trains arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 16 May – 20 September 1944

Appendix III: Dramatis personæ

Appendix IV: Chronology Appendix V: Document Finding Aid

Bibliography

Index of Persons and Place Names

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	20 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-83695-112-4 / 1836951124
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-112-4 / 9781836951124
Zustand	Neuware