Eichmann command

The Eichmann Command (officially: Special Operations Command Eichmann ) was a special unit of the Schutzstaffel (SS) under the leadership of Adolf Eichmann , which had the task of “eliminating and concentrating the Hungarian Jews from public life, then deporting them and with the exception After the occupation of Hungary by the Wehrmacht on March 19, 1944 (" Operation Margarethe "), it organized the deportation of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews within a very short time, on April 27, 1944, together with the Sztójay government and the Hungarian militia By July 11, 1944, according to the German Ambassador Edmund Veesenmayer, 437,000 Jews had been deported. The special unit consisted of only 150 people, but is still considered by many in Hungary to be solely responsible for the Hungarian Holocaust . It had its headquarters in the Budapest luxury hotel " Astoria ". Eichmann's deputy was SS-Obersturmbannführer Hermann Krumey (1905–1981). Other leading members of the SEK were Siegfried Seidl , Theodor Dannecker , Dieter Wisliceny , Franz Novak , Otto Hunsche , Anton Brunner and Franz Abromeit .

Under the government Lakatos 1944 further deportations were prevented from 9 August, but they were after the fall of Horthy under the Pfeilkreuzlerregierung of Szálasi resumed on 15 October 1944th After the battle for Budapest began , Eichmann fled Budapest from the Soviet troops on December 23, 1944 .

See also

• Holocaust in Hungary
• Holocaust Documentation Center (Budapest)

literature

• Article on forced labor and death marches in Hungary (PDF file; 213 kB)
• Molnár, Judit: The Foundation and Activities of the Hungarian Jewish Council, March 20 - July 7, 1944 (PDF file; 206 kB)
• A vidéki zsidók deportálása
• Szabolcs Szita: Deported , starved, destroyed. The deportation of Hungarian Jews to annexed Austria 1944–1945 . With a foreword by György Konrád . Translated from the Hungarian by Schmidtné Tasnádi Ágnes and Winfried Schmid. Werner Eichbauer Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-901699-10-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regional Court Frankfurt am Main Ks 1/63, p. 71, quoted from: Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes . Tübingen 2002, p. 100.
2. ^ Eleonore Lappin: Hungarian Jews in Austria: Forced Labor 1944/45 and the Death Marches in Spring 1945
3. ↑ Szabolcs Szita is the scientific director of the Foundation Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection in Budapest; Professor of History at the University of Sopron and the Jewish University in Budapest