Operation H?ss: The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, MayJuly 1944 [Paperback]

Operation H?ss or Aktion H?ss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp. Between 14 May and 9 July 1944, 420,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Hungary, or about 12,000 per day. On arrival some twenty-five percent were selected for forced labor while the remainder were immediately gassed. The name of this atrocity came from Rudolf H?ss, who returned as the commandant of Auschwitz to increase the killing capacity and ensure the smooth running of the operation. The specially built railway line into Birkenau from Auschwitz made transports to the camp more efficient enabling the SS to increase the daily killing capacity. After the war, SS Adolf Eichmann, who had organized the deportations from Hungary, boasted that Operation H?ss was an achievement never matched before or since. This shocking book tells the story of this inhuman venture from its conception and planning, and though to the bitter, tragic end.Operation H?ss or Aktion H?ss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp.Records a truly horrific episode of WW2.Even by the inhuman standards of the Nazi Holocaust Operation Hoss was extreme.Authoritative text is well supported by quality contemporary images many unseen before.Latest in the popular Images of War series.Compiled by much published author.GB