This book re-examines one of the most intense controversies of the Holocaust: the role of Rezs Kasztner in facilitating the murder of most of Nazi-occupied Hungary's Jews in 1944. Because he was acting head of the Jewish rescue operation in Hungary; some have hailed him as a saviour. Others have charged that he collaborated with the Nazis in the deportations to Auschwitz. What is indisputable is that Adolf Eichmann agreed to spare a special group of 1;684 Jews; who included some of Kasztner's relatives and friends; while nearly 500;000 Hungarian Jews were sent to their deaths. Why were so many lives lost?After World War II; many Holocaust survivors condemned Kasztner for complicity in the deportation of Hungarian Jews. It was alleged that; as a condition of saving a small number of Jewish leaders and select others; he deceived ordinary Jews into boarding the trains to Auschwitz. The ultimate question is whether Kastztner was a Nazi collaborator; as branded by Ben Hecht in his 1961 book Perfidy; or a hero; as Anna Porter argued in her 2009 book Kasztner's Train. Opinion remains divided.Paul Bogdanor makes an original; compelling case that Kasztner helped the Nazis keep order in Hungary's ghettos before the Jews were sent to Auschwitz; and sent Nazi disinformation to his Jewish contacts in the free world. Drawing on unpublished documents; and making extensive use of the transcripts of the Kasztner and Eichmann trials in Israel; Kasztner's Crime is a chilling account of one man's descent into evil during the genocide of his own people.
#249581 in Books Clayton Lawrence A 2011-01-18 2011-01-07Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.55 x .52 x 5.50l; .57 #File Name: 1405194286204 pagesBartolome de Las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. great history of the colonial period. it was well written and worth reading;; i want to read more of what he wroteBy lisa b wegenerHe did a great job of making history come alive. He documented everything very well and yet it was readable0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Conquest shrouded in and empowered by the ethos of the “greater goodâ€By hindsightAn excellent book and valid and reliable documentation of the continuing journey of the Holy Eucharist to and across the Americas: to apply in a set of research papers I’m putting together on the parallelism between Church and state unified under the Cross; sword and “the greater good.â€0 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Skyler Cody Lovvornthanks
