A Crime in the Family
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A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's
dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories
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. A Crime in the Family is Sacha
Batthyany's memoir of confronting these questions, and of the
answers he found. It is 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, A Crime in the Family is a moving and revelatory
memoir in the vein of The Hare with the Amber Eyes and The House by
the Lake. It uncovers barbarity and tragedy but also a measure of
peace and reconciliation. Ultimately, Batthyany discovers that
although his inheritance might be that of monsters, he does not
bear it alone.
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Quercus ,
Sacha Batthyany
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Quercus,
Sacha Batthyany
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Slovart
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