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Collection of articles, essays, documents, and statistical data selected from the 1st six issues of Studies for a new central Europe, 1963-69.
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Collection of articles, essays, documents, and statistical data selected from the 1st six issues of Studies for a new central Europe, 1963-69.
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Collection of articles, essays, documents, and statistical data selected from the 1st six issues of Studies for a new central Europe, 1963-69.
The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism.
Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who experienced the night of 3 March 1949. He spoke to people who survived the Romanian Gulag and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future.
About the saving of thousands of Jewish orphans by Rabbi Wolf Frei, establishing safe house orphanages, inside Budapest, during the war, and detailing other rescue efforts, by Wallenberg and many other Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers right under the nose of the Hungarian Iron Cross Fascists and the Nazis. It gives a wide panorama of all of the rescue efforts organized within Budapest during the Nazi invasion of Hungary