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A crime in the family : a World War II secret buried in silence-- and my search for the truth / Sacha Batthyány ; translated by Anthea Bell.

by Batthyány, Sacha, 1973-

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Da Capo Press, 2017.

Batthyány, Sacha, 1973- -- Family.

Batthyány, Margit.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Austria -- Rechnitz.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Austria -- Rechnitz.

Family secrets.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

9780306825828 (hc.)

Und was hat das mit mir zu tun? English

213 pages ; 24 cm

Subtitle from cover.

Translation of: Und was hat das mit mir zu tun? : Ein Verbrechen in März 1945. Die Geschichte meiner Familie; originally published: Cologne, Germany : Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co. KG, c2016.

Translated from the German.

"A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart - an extraordinary untold story of the Second World War. In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish labourers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party. It remained a secret for decades, until Sacha Batthyany, who remembered his great-aunt Margit only vaguely from his childhood as a stern, distant woman, began to ask questions about it. Sacha Batthyany's memoir of confronting these questions, and of the answers he found. One of the last untold stories of Europe's nightmare century, spanning not just the massacre at Rechnitz, the inhumanity of Auschwitz, the chaos of wartime Budapest and the brutalities of Soviet occupation and Stalin's gulags, but also the silent crimes of complicity and cover-up, and the damaged generations they leave behind. Told partly through the surviving journals of others from the author's family and the vanished world of Rechnitz, this is a moving and revelatory memoir, uncovering barbarity and tragedy but also a measure of peace and reconciliation"--Provided by publisher.

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