signandsight made us aware of the ongoing discussion on the murder of austrian jews in the small village of rechnitz at the austrian - hungarian border. read more about the ongoing discussion on signandsight (ENG) or perlentaucher (GER)
[...] Quite a stir was caused this week by an article by British journalist and author David R. L. Litchfield dealing with a massacre of 200 Jews that took place in Rechnitz, on the Austro-Hungarian border, shortly before the end of World War II. In it, Litchfield asserts that the massacre was a form of amusement for the Nazi guests of Margit von Batthyany, daughter of and partial heir to the German Thyssen industrial family [...]
map of rechnitz
[...] Quite a stir was caused this week by an article by British journalist and author David R. L. Litchfield dealing with a massacre of 200 Jews that took place in Rechnitz, on the Austro-Hungarian border, shortly before the end of World War II. In it, Litchfield asserts that the massacre was a form of amusement for the Nazi guests of Margit von Batthyany, daughter of and partial heir to the German Thyssen industrial family [...]
map of rechnitz
