The Women of the Arrow Cross Party

Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War

Andrea Pető (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 96 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-51227-9 (ISBN)

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This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility. It examines why and how far-right women in general and among them several Second World War perpetrators were made invisible by their fellow Arrow Cross Party members in the 1930s and during the war (1939-1945), and later by the Hungarian people's tribunals responsible for the purge of those guilty of war crimes (1945-1949). It argues that because of their 'invisibilization' the legacy of these women could remain alive throughout the years of state socialism and that, furthermore, this legacy has actively contributed to the recent insurgence of far-right politics in Hungary. This book therefore analyses how the invisibility of Second World War perpetrators is connected to twenty-first century memory politics and the present-day resurgence of far-right movements.

lt;b>Andrea Petö is Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her previous publications include six monographs and thirty-one edited volumes, while her works on gender, politics, the Holocaust and war have been translated into twenty-three languages. She was awarded the 2018 All European Academies (ALLEA) Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values.

1. Introduction.- 2. Invisible Party Members.- 3. Invisible Political Actors.- 4. Invisible Defendants.- 5. Invisibility on Photographs.- 6. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	XI, 96 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	151 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Fascism • Gender • Holocaust • Nazism • political extremism
ISBN-10	3-030-51227-4 / 3030512274
ISBN-13	978-3-030-51227-9 / 9783030512279
Zustand	Neuware