Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust Joseph David
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust Joseph David When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed…
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Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust Joseph David
When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday, and devised a particular gift from the Austrian people: the elimination of Jewish life in the Burgenland, picturesque farming country about 70 km south-east of Vienna. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna.
The Holocaust had begun. Eichmann took note of the brutal methodology. Burgenland is an astonishing survey of Jewish history in Central Europe, an account of the opening salvo of what turned into the systematic industrial-scale genocide of European Jewry, a stern examination of British policy and the world's wholly inadequate response.
It is also a deeply personal memoir and family history. Impeccably researched and hugely ambitious in scope, it narrates the full arc of the
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