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1 Dark skies over Budapest. The autehentic history of Raoul wallenberg and the rescue actions. Gellert Kovacs

2 Dark skies over Budapest. This book is the authentic story about what really happened in Budapest in 1944- 45, made through years of research in Hungarian archives. This book presents events not well known before, and shows the complexity of the life- saving actions These actions led to the fact that Budapest was the only major city, controlled by the nazis, where jews managed to survive in large numbers, despite extensive terror and persecution.

3 Dark skies over Budapest The Road to disaster. Hungary and the Jews- love, hate and ambivalence Agreement with the devil. 1944. The year of darkness Humanity awakes slowly Raoul Wallenberg before 1944. The youth-world citizen Combat instructor The frustrated tradesman. Summer of 1944 The killers witdraw temporarly Networking and administration The hot August

4 Dark skies over Budapest. The calm before the storm. The two camps. Wallenberg´s projects The German connection. Doktor C, Taurus and the Swedish courier 18 th October-the planned uprising The gates to hell open. Operation Mickey Mouse and Panzerfaust. October 15-16. Days of dispair. The persecution continues. Contacts with the new masters.

5 Dark skies over Budapest. The Schutzling protokoll-squad The death marches. Enemy with many faces The resistance makes new plans The typing-machine technician and the arrow cross-man Crescendo. The national retaliation unit strikes down. The travel to Hegyeshalom KISKA-the secret army Angyalföld and Zugló What happened at the railway yard? Cooperation and competition between the neutrals The two ghettos The fights of the Jewish council

6 Dark skies over Budapest Battles night and day The siege Total terror The rescuers work around the clock Struggle for the protected houses Bloody Christmas Eve 1944 Successes and failures The last bite of the nazis Wallenberg goes into hiding The massacre of the main ghetto- truth or myth? Wallenberg´s last days in Budapest Epilogue. No happy end to this fairytale The Wallenberg-process of 1953

7 Gellert Kovacs gelliver@yahoo.com +46 (0)73 954 57 13 gellertkovacs.com gelliver@yahoo.com

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