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description: In 1944 as the Soviet army closed in on Budapest a train rolled out of the station. On that train were carriage after carriage of loot  gold diamonds furs wedding rings  plundered in one of the most shameful crimes of the century. Commanded by rpd Toldi a key organizer of the Hungarian Holocaust and harbouring a desperate group of fascist ideologues soldiers and thieves the gold train was destined for a Nazi stronghold in the Alps. It would never arrive. Along its crazed journey the trains contents were pilfered fought over hidden and scattered until they became the stuff of legend with legal claims unresolved even today. What is the truth of this mythical cargo? In The Gold Train Ronald Zweig reveals the full story of one of the most terrible mysteries of the Second World War.
language: English
title: The Gold Train: The Destruction of the Jews and the Looting of Hungary
publisher: Endeavour Press