Gendarmes Bureaucrats and Jews

Between May and July 1944 over 440000 Jews were deported from the Hungarian provinces to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where 330000 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reports of Gendarmerie Lieutenant Colonel László Ferenczy Hungary's liaison to Adolf Eichmann and the previously unpublished reports from two cities Ungvár and Szolnok.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.