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Report: 180 Jews murdered at party in Austrian castle in 1945
By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel, Nazis, Holocaust

BERLIN - A few weeks before the end of the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was swiftly approaching the borders of Germany, SS men held a party inn an ancient castle by the Austrian town of Rechnitz. The party, held to mark the eve of Easter, March 24, 1945, was hosted by a baroness who owned the castle and was a member of one of the wealthiest families in Europe.

According to a report published in the German Newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung," at the height of the party, some 200 Jews were taken from the dungeons of the castle to a nearby silo. The Jews, who were kept in the dungeons, worked on the fortifications of the nearby town of Lasem.
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At some point, party organizers handed out pistols and clubs to the drunken revelers and invited them to kill the Jews herded into the silo.

Over the course of the evening, 180 Hungarian Jews were murdered and buried in a mass grave.

British Historian David Lichtfield discovered the story of the party while researching a book he was writing entitled "They Thyssen Art Massacre."

Lichtfield revealed the story last Thursday in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung."

German historians have responded to Lichtenstein's findings by stating that there is no basis to the story that the party was held at the castle, or that Jews were mass murdered or buried in a mass grave on its premises.

Professor Wolfgang Benz, an expert on anti-Semitism, stated Sunday on German radio that Lichtfield's version of events is "illogical." A 1994 Austrian film about the party, "Wall of Silence," depicted the filmmakers attempts to find the mass grave, to no avail.

Lichtfield was hired by the baroness's brother to write his biography, but after the brother's death, an unnamed European playboy and art collector persuaded Lichtfield not to publish the story
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  1.   Justification for Dresden 14:03  |  Murray of Montreal 22/10/07
  2.   Revisiting History (rewriting as necessary) 14:12  |  Natallie Durson 22/10/07
  3.   Shooting party? 14:13  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 22/10/07
  4.   It should be against EU-Law to deny this story 14:25  |  Zach 22/10/07
  5.   #1, Murray of Montreal 14:43  |  Anton 22/10/07
  6.   Calm down 14:55  |  David Hawkins 22/10/07
  7.   Difference? 14:56  |  North American 22/10/07
  8.   Durson #2 - just does not get it 14:58  |  Avrum 22/10/07
  9.   Daniel Goldhagen`s book: "Hitler`s Willing Executioners" 15:01  |  Yitzhak 22/10/07
  10.   #2 is right 15:09  |  Izzy 22/10/07
  11.   #4 Zach 15:13  |  Boycott 22/10/07
  12.   In Mauthausen conc. camp 500 Dutch Jews were thrown off a cliif 15:18  |  PETER SM 22/10/07
  13.   #11, Zach 15:25  |  Anton 22/10/07
  14.   PETER SM 15:27  |  Anton 22/10/07
  15.   hint 15:44  |  Axel 22/10/07
  16.   Google this 15:54  |  Daniello 22/10/07
  17.   THE GERMANS ARE STILL IN DENIAL........NOT GOOD!! 15:56  |  David P 22/10/07
  18.   Thyssen-Batthiany 16:03  |  michael 22/10/07
  19.   to nr 7 16:03  |  ophthalmologist 22/10/07
  20.   Thank you, Europe, for attitude towards us, then and, I am sad to 16:05  |  Albert 22/10/07
  21.   Austrians 16:06  |  sweis Melbourne 22/10/07
  22.   Blind Durson 16:07  |  ophthalmologist 22/10/07
  23.   Natalie Durson 16:08  |  H 22/10/07
  24.   Don`t worry AXEL will be along shortly 16:09  |  * BEN JABO 22/10/07
  25.   #15, Daniello on LICHTfield 16:10  |  Anton 22/10/07
  26.   180 Jews in Austria 16:16  |  siegfried buchwalte 22/10/07
  27.   #16, David P 16:19  |  Anton 22/10/07
  28.   Sorry, but I do not see the relevance of this article 16:27  |  Mark B. 22/10/07
  29.   @17 David P. on Germans 16:30  |  Mark B. 22/10/07
  30.   I Agree With Mark B. 16:57  |  Yosemite 22/10/07
  31.   Absolutely, Anton 16:58  |  Adam 22/10/07
  32.   To michael of Germany 17:16  |  Historian 22/10/07
  33.   Mark B@28 17:20  |  Realistic 22/10/07
  34.   To ophthalmologist 17:21  |  Logician 22/10/07
  35.   # 16 david p 17:24  |  Axel 22/10/07
  36.   To H of London 17:24  |  Curious 22/10/07
  37.   Natallie Durson wants to be a Nazi 17:26  |  Yaakov 22/10/07
  38.   #2 Nutallie Durson 17:50  |  Sol 22/10/07
  39.   Logics & ophtalmology 18:17  |  Marco 22/10/07
  40.   whiitewashing Austria 18:22  |  sweis Melbourne 22/10/07
  41.   Mme Durson 18:25  |  Miransky 22/10/07
  42.   Games Germans play 18:32  |  Jonathan S 22/10/07
  43.   #19 ophtha... 18:36  |  North American 22/10/07
  44.   re: siegfried buchwalte 18:41  |  David 22/10/07
  45.   Sweis in Melbourne is correct 18:42  |  Jonathan S 22/10/07
  46.   #7 North American "Difference?" 18:59  |  Clarence Darrow 22/10/07
  47.   The Germans 19:11  |  Max Mishkin 22/10/07
  48.   #31 Why offer them page/mike/site? 19:25  |  3-ha-ha 22/10/07
  49.   It appears that despite all the efforts made, we 19:42  |  Petra 22/10/07
  50.   #9: Yitzhak on Goldhagen 20:10  |  Edith 22/10/07
  51.   The Spiegel article 20:13  |  Rolland 22/10/07
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  53.   Anton 20:23  |  Marco Benatar 22/10/07
  54.   1 slippery slope 20:30  |  0 Degrees 22/10/07
  55.   Like the lynchings in Ramallah? 20:30  |  Scharker Yid 22/10/07
  56.   Mass killing by white europeans n 20:30  |  omolll 22/10/07
  57.   Natalie 20:33  |  gregdn 22/10/07
  58.   Difference 20:38  |  Larry 22/10/07
  59.   #2, "every single Israeli Jew killed" 20:47  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 22/10/07
  60.   the "party" 20:51  |  Shmuelshachor 22/10/07
  61.   #58 Larry 21:08  |  North American 22/10/07
  62.   #46 Clarence 21:11  |  North American 22/10/07
  63.   # 59 Cipora Julianna Kohn 21:17  |  Traude 22/10/07
  64.   Re #1; Dresden and all the responses to it. 21:34  |  Helene White 22/10/07
  65.   Red meat for paranoids, and a money maker 21:37  |  Tosefta 22/10/07
  66.   GERMAN`S HAVE CENTURIES OF REPENTENCE AHEAD OF THEM 21:39  |  David P 22/10/07
  67.   Murray of Montreal - Dresden was a war crime 21:49  |  Monger 22/10/07
  68.   ANTON Germany has been very honest,forthright & made reparations 21:50  |  PETER SM 22/10/07
  69.   # 61 david 21:55  |  Axel 22/10/07
  70.   Cipora, do the math for Palestinians now 21:57  |  Tim 22/10/07
  71.   to the "american" on #7 22:05  |  Shmuelshachor 22/10/07
  72.   #5 Anton has an abundance of gall 22:15  |  Clarence Darrow 22/10/07
  73.   TIM How manymillions would be dead if you compared Israeli dead 22:16  |  PETER S.M. 22/10/07
  74.   TOSEFTA Re red meat.You seem to find something of value in 22:20  |  PETER S.M. 22/10/07
  75.   Edith 22:32  |  sweis Melbourne 22/10/07
  76.   Edith 22:32  |  sweis Melbourne 22/10/07
  77.   Justification for Dresden? 22:34  |  Marcellus 22/10/07
  78.   #67 Monger 22:34  |  Murray of Montreal 22/10/07
  79.   Humans are beasts 22:37  |  Penny 22/10/07
  80.   # 60 What a bunch of nonsense! 22:41  |  Frank 22/10/07
  81.   Message #50 about the good intentions of Europeans 22:53  |  Yitzhak 22/10/07
  82.   Nazi atrocities are hardly news 23:04  |  Michael II 22/10/07
  83.   #2 Natallie Durson 23:05  |  Daybreak 22/10/07
  84.   @33 Realistic 23:11  |  Mark B. 22/10/07
  85.   Wolfgang Benz, not Wolfgang Bantz 23:17  |  Shual 22/10/07
  86.   One in a million such atrocities. What`s the news? 23:41  |  Fortuna Benmayor 22/10/07
  87.   "In the Waiting Room of Forgiveness" 00:05  |  Stephen 23/10/07
  88.   #68 PeterSM. Documentaries. 00:06  |  Maureen Ann 23/10/07
  89.   What a poorly written article. 00:14  |  Chick 23/10/07
  90.   Credibility 00:17  |  Sherlock Holmes 23/10/07
  91.   to: omolli - You are incorrect 00:39  |  Ed 23/10/07
  92.   #79 Maureen Ann 00:56  |  * BEN JABO 23/10/07
  93.   Durson # 2 00:57  |  Sabra 23/10/07
  94.   Dursons rukles right or wrong 00:59  |  Sabra 23/10/07
  95.   Natallie, 01:02  |  judith 23/10/07
  96.   58 Larry 01:09  |  Larry 23/10/07
  97.   Natallie Durson: i nary wish ill upon humans 01:09  |  Richard S 23/10/07
  98.   The sad thing is 01:29  |  American Patriot 23/10/07
  99.   #5 Anton, Austrian People welcomed enthusiastically unification 01:48  |  Max Zinger,P.Chimist 23/10/07
  100.   #69 AXEL PLEASE ELABORATE, YOU`D RELICATE CRIMES OF YOUR ELDERS 02:12  |  David P 23/10/07
  101.   Peter SM re Tosefta 02:12  |  danite 23/10/07
  102.   MAUREEN N.Everyhospital&Dr in Israel part of agigantic conspiracy 02:16  |  PETER S .M. 23/10/07
  103.   # 72 Clarence Darrow, There is no denial that Anton 02:21  |  Max Zinger,P.Chimist 23/10/07
  104.   TO ALL RESPONDENTS 02:33  |  JOJO 23/10/07
  105.   Traude 02:42  |  ConnieM. 23/10/07
  106.   #79: Maureen`s irrelavancy 02:52  |  Adrian de Klerk 23/10/07
  107.   #5 03:23  |  Moshe 23/10/07
  108.   we didnt kill 180 but we did kill 6,000,000 03:59  |  Joe Barnathan 23/10/07
  109.   MAUREEN N.Add to that Drs all over the world 04:03  |  PETER S.M. 23/10/07
  110.   Reperations NOW!!! 04:15  |  dan 23/10/07
  111.   #89 Apologist Danite the comprehension-challenged, IX 04:25  |  Tosefta 23/10/07
  112.   Tosefta thats what I mean 05:28  |  Danite 23/10/07
  113.   american patriot 05:43  |  Connie 23/10/07
  114.   #67 Monger - Dresden ended the war 05:54  |  * BEN JABO 23/10/07
  115.   Maureen Ann - Get`s her "INFORMATION" (lol) 05:58  |  * BEN JABO 23/10/07
  116.   white barbarity is nothing new... 06:39  |  Hamite 3000 23/10/07
  117.   #1 Murray of Montreal 06:46  |  isaac moss 23/10/07
  118.   Amir/Tribombler 07:26  |  Mel McManus 23/10/07
  119.   #90 *Ben Jabo. 07:45  |  Maureen Ann 23/10/07
  120.   MAUREEN N.Do you know the difference between accepted treatement 08:13  |  PETER SM 23/10/07
  121.   Nazi-Jews x Palestine 08:21  |  Yohan Dahal 23/10/07
  122.   #116 Maureen Ann 09:10  |  * BEN JABO 23/10/07
  123.   #116-2 Maureen Ann 09:14  |  * BEN JABO 23/10/07
  124.   Shame 09:20  |  Gus the Lebanese 23/10/07
  125.   #119 Yohan 09:27  |  North American 23/10/07
  126.   An alternative version 10:06  |  Daniel 23/10/07
  127.   Addendum to connie #112 11:19  |  Joshua 23/10/07
  128.   Dresden et al. 11:22  |  SP 23/10/07
  129.   #53 Marco Benatar 11:44  |  CF 23/10/07
  130.   #116 Hamite 3000, Don`t single out "white barbarity"... 13:04  |  Haham me Bat yam 23/10/07
  131.   #104 ConnieM. 13:21  |  Traude 23/10/07
  132.   #104 ConnieM. 15:03  |  Traude 23/10/07
  133.   Ancient History 17:59  |  J Olson 23/10/07
  134.   why the censorship haaretz? 18:13  |  Hamite 3000 23/10/07
  135.   #133 Olson 00:34  |  * BEN JABO 24/10/07
  136.   Thank you Hamite 3000 for your post # 134 02:04  |  Fortuna Benmayor 24/10/07
  137.   #133 - Ancient History 02:49  |  Ben 24/10/07
  138.   Evidence? 08:21  |  RileyDeWiley 24/10/07
  139.   #138 You`re not so wiley 19:40  |  * BEN JABO 24/10/07
  140.   Menuhin interview 21:16  |  sweis Melbourne 02/11/07
  141.   Not even a story 14:09  |  David King 24/11/07
  142.   David P - y can`t zion? 14:10  |  David King 24/11/07
  143.   Mark B.#28, you got it 14:12  |  David King 24/11/07
  144.   Yosemite #30 14:14  |  David King 24/11/07
  145.   David P AGAIN #66 14:17  |  David King 24/11/07
  146.   Austrian ant-Semites 18:01  |  chelemer 28/11/07
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