Rechnitz (Croatian: Rohunac, Hungarian: Rohonc, Rohoncz, Romani: Rochonca) is a municipality in Burgenland in the Oberwart district in Austria.

In 2007, British journalist David Litchfield published an essay in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung alleging that the murders were carried out by a group of locals who had gathered for a party at the castle of the Countess of Batthyany, born Margit Thyssen-Bornemisza.

[4] A number of notable historians have disputed Litchfield's version of the massacre, among them anti-Semitism researcher Wolfgang Benz and Winfried Garscha of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance.

Some say that at the end of the 1960s, some of the bodies of the victims were found by accident – 18 corpses were exhumed and moved to a Jewish cemetery in Graz.

Then the trail died for another 30 years, finally revived by a documentary film Stecken, Stab und Stangl, by Erne/Heinrich, the essay by Litchfield, and the play Rechnitz (der Würgeengel) by Elfriede Jelinek.