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  Educating the Military...and Others. Building the Basis for Effective Atrocity Prevention

  David Frey

  This book presents the insights, advice and suggestions of secondary level teachers and professors in relation to teaching about various facets of genocide. The contributions are extremely eclectic, ranging from the basic concerns when teaching about genocide to a discussion as to why it is critical to teach students about more general human rights violations during a course on genocide, and from a focus on specific cases of genocide to various pedagogical strategies ideal for teaching about genocide. David Frey's article focuses on the importance and methods for teaching atrocity prevention to current and future military officers.

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  Echoes of the Shoah: the 1951 Resettlement of Budapest’s Jews

  David Frey

  A series of large-scale expropriations and evictions of the heavily Jewish Budapest middle-class in 1951 revealed the limited implementation and enforcement of the Human Rights provisions of the Hungarian constitution. The American Legation and the US State Department collected evidence of Human Rights violations, which stirred an international debate over events in Hungary that offers evidence that there was "Holocaust silence" in the early 1950s.

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  Jews, Nazis, and the Cinema of Hungary: The Tragedy of Success, 1929-44

  David Frey

  Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary’s motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe’s top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany and Italy in feature output. This robustness inspired Hungarian intellectuals to predict that film would help their kingdom regain its rightful place as one of Europe’s leading Kulturnationen. This became the holy grail of Hungarian cultural politics—to produce a cohesive, attractive and exportable national culture that would allow Hungary not only to recapture the prestige and power lost in the post-Great War settlements while also uniting all ethnic Hungarians. Yet by 1944, Hungary’s cinema was in shambles, its unification experiments and its productive capacity destroyed by a combination of internecine conflict and external influences it had no hope of controlling. This cultural and political history examines the birth, unexpected ascendance, and wartime collapse of Hungary’s early sound cinema by placing it within a complex international nexus. Detailing the interplay of Hungarian cultural and political elites, Jewish film professionals and financiers, Nazi officials, and global film moguls, Frey demonstrates how the transnational process of forging an industry designed to define a national culture proved particularly contentious and surprisingly contradictory in the heyday of racial nationalism and antisemitism.

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  After Genocide: Rwanda and the African Future

  David Frey and Bonnie Kovatch

  How do we think about-and plan for-the unthinkable? Contemplating the apocalypse has traditionally been a task reserved for prophets, poets, and philosophers. Today they are joined by statesmen and bureaucrats. As the modern state comes to oversee emergency management and disaster relief, real-world policymakers increasingly find themselves forced to envision the worst that can happen. To what degree do they succeed in doing so? How can individuals in an ordered society properly anticipate disorder? What are today's worst case scenarios and to what degree is United States foreign policy prepared to respond to them? The contributors to this volume address these and related questions, in essays that cast students as policymakers on the cusp of consequential decisions. "It doesn't matter if the potential threat is a cyberattack, terrorism, a natural disaster, or even, God forbid, zombies. In our currently vulnerable state, every scenario is a worst case scenario. And this is why asking this volume's question-what is the worst that could happen?-is so important." -Max Brooks, author of World War Z, from the Foreword to this volume.

  Dr. David Frey and Bonnie Kovach examine the genocide in Rwanda and what we can learn from this example of the worst that can happen.

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  Competitor or Compatriot? Hungarian Film in the Shadow of the Swastika, 1933–44

  David Frey

  Frey's article provides a general overview of Hungarian-German film relations from 1933-1944. It begins with a discussion of the purge of non-Germans from German cinema (1932-34) and the impact of this purge on the development of the Hungarian film industry. It then progresses through a general consideration of the Kulturpolitik and Filmpolitik between Nazi Germany and Hungary through the 1930s. This segment focuses on shared notions of “national film”; the centrality of antisemitism; and the triangular relationship between Germany,Hungary, and the United States. Using previous undiscovered primary source material, the article considers German pressure onHungary to remove Jewish figures from the domestic Hungarian film industry.

  The onset of the Second World War enabled Hungary to complete its transformation from fledgling film maker to the continent’s third most prolific producer of sound feature film (trailing only Germany and Italy in 1942). Despite attempts to resolve differences and increase the number of co-productions, Germany and Hungary found themselves at loggerheads over film matters with greater and greater frequency. This article explains those areas of contest and competition, and occasional cooperation.