Survival under Dictatorships Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes
A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state is represented in this book in three horrific episodes in the history of East-Central Europe. The three events followed each other within a span of about ten years: the deportation and murder of Hungarian Jews in Nazi death a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Budapest :
Central European University Press
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009809439906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Hungarian Holocaust
- Introduction
- Germany and the Hungarian Holocaust
- Antecedents
- Rounding Up
- Life in the Ghetto
- Journey by Livestock Cars
- What Did They Know?
- Disembarkment
- The First Hours
- What Did They See?
- Camp Life
- Nutrition: Barely Enough to Die
- Death by Labor
- Victim Behavior, Humanity
- Guards, Kapos, Fellow Prisoners, and Civilians
- Resistance
- Transfer, Evacuation
- Liberation
- Part II Arrow Cross Terror
- Introduction
- Terrorist Spaces
- Numbers
- Rescue and Betrayal
- The Complexity of Rescue: The Sisters of Divine Love
- The Power of Housekeepers
- Torn Identities
- Execution, Torture, Robbery
- What Motivated Them?
- Who Were They?
- Annihilation
- Escape
- Survival of Humanity
- Between Political Extremes
- Part III Stalinism in Hungary
- Soviet Occupation, Deportation
- New Dictatorship, Old Habits
- A New Elite
- Life under Repression
- Terror from Below
- Collaboration, Resistance
- Self-Policing or “Total Control”?
- The Scope of Repression
- The Top-Down, Bottom-Up Dynamic of Dictatorial Rule
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Personal Names
