Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- Foreword by Richard Buxbaum -- What is This Book About? -- I. ON THE RELEVANCE OF HISTORY -- Maria Ormos v. Mathias Albrecht -- II. THREE BECSKEREK STORIES -- Featuring Local Jews and Germans in the Leading Roles -- An Anacrusis -- 1. The Eckstein Case -- 2. Socks on the Chandelier, Lives by a Thread -- 3. The Freund/Barath Document -- III. HUNGARIAN STORIES OF BANAT -- People and Formulae -- 1. An Early Attempt to Topple the Soviet Power in Hungary -- 2. The Case of Istvan Bakai with Various Armies -- 3. Is There a Window to Shoot From? -- IV. A STORY FROM THE BORDER OF BANAT -- From Goose-down Business and Border Trespassing to a Concentration Camp -- V. DIVORCES, NEAR DIVORCES, AND SHAM DIVORCES -- 1. A Near Divorce -- 2 . Divorces and Sham Divorces in the Wake of World War Two -- 3. A Husband Who Very Seldom Visits Pubs and Only in the People’s Interest -- VI. LEGENDS CHECKED IN LEGAL FILES -- 1. The Messinger -- 2. Dueling in Becskerek -- VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SITUATION -- Lawsuits in the Years of the First Five-Year Plan -- Some Perspective in Introduction -- 1. Corn or Corn Flour -- 2. Even if the Money is Made Available, I Cannot Transfer It -- 3. Cooperative Denial -- 4. A Calf-Killing Against the People’s Interests -- 5. Mafia-Type Activity in the Years of the First Five-Year Plan -- VIII. EXPLOITING FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN DISPUTES BETWEEN NEIGHBORS AND CHURCHES -- 1. Fascism for Household Use in Becskerek -- 2. A Cynical Anti-People Smile (From Behind the Window) -- Back cover.