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

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9781836951124
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781836951148
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

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reports of Gendarmerie Lieutenant Colonel László Ferenczy, Hungary's liaison to Adolf Eichmann, and the previously unpublished reports from two cities, Ungvár and Szolnok.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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Text
• Notes on Translations
• Place Names
• Abbreviations
• List of Documents
• Introduction
• The German Occupation — Document 1
• Hungarian Preparations — Documents 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: Kosice List — Deportation Trains Registered When Passing Through the Border Town of Kosice 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 Personae
• Appendix IV: Chronology
• Appendix V: Document Finding Aid
• Bibliography
• Index