Gellert Hardi-Kovacs

Dark Skies over Budapest (eBook, PDF)

Raoul Wallenberg, Resistance and Rescue of the Hungarian Jews, 1944-1945
Übersetzer: Davis, Jane

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Budapest in the autumn of 1944 was a city full of terror. The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg became an important part of the networks desperately trying to save the Jewish population in Hungary. is a true story of resistance and rescue and of one of the greatest humanitarian efforts of the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800792821
• Artikelnr.: 72286014

Autorenporträt

Gellert Hardi-Kovacs was born in Budapest, Hungary but moved to Stockholm, Sweden in 1982. He studied at Stockholm and Glasgow Universities and began working as a teacher in 2001. Since 2008 he has also been active as a researcher about Raoul Wallenberg, which led to the Swedish edition of this book in 2013. Since then, he has released a number of books about the Holocaust, military intelligence and political humour.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Hungary and the Jewish people: A story of love, hate and ambivalence - A pact with the devil - 1944: The year of darkness - Humanity slowly awakens - Raoul Wallenberg before his posting to Hungary in 1944 - The first period in Hungary - Wallenberg's first actions - Drama in August - The situation temporarily stabilises - The planned uprising against the Germans - Taurus and the Swedish courier - The two camps plan for a showdown - Operation Mickey Mouse and Panzerfaust - What did Wallenberg do during the coup? - An enemy with many faces - The persecution resumes - The neutral envoys - The Schützling Protocol Group - The typewriter repairman and the Arrow Cross - The resistance rises again - KISKA - The secret army - Zugló and Angyalföld - Wallenberg and the resistance - The Accountability Unit strikes - The action at Józsefváros railway station - The siege begins - The two ghettos - The rescuers work day and night - Total terror - The bloody Christmas - The battle for the protected buildings - The Nazi serpent's final bite - The massacre in the main ghetto - myth or truth? - Epilogue: A story without a happy ending.