Very interesting article about Hungary and the war.
Just for the record, I have a good friend who is a Hungarian Jewish writer in New York City and she LOVES President Trump.
Is George Soros on display as a collaborator.
“Some 600,000 Hungarian Jews perished during the Holocaust, most of them deported in the space of a few months in 1944 with the assistance of the Hungarian authorities...An official memorial erected in 2014 that portrayed Hungary as an innocent victim of Nazi Germany incensed many Holocaust survivors.”
The fact is that Hungary protected its Jewish population from the Nazis until Germans occupied Hungary in early 1944. The same situation played out in Italy; Mussolini thought Hitler’s racial policies were ridiculous, and didn’t let the Nazis kill the Jews in Italy while he was in control. When it happened, Germany had already taken control of Italy.
Look up the Arrow Cross; if you dare
Admiral Horthy was not particularly brutal nor was he particularly hostile to Jews. Though Hungary was an Axis country - largely due to historical reasons since the Hungarians had been utterly screwed over by the French at the end of WWI in the Triannon treaty and wanted to regain some lost territory and because they’ve always hated the Russians - Horthy consistently refused to hand over Hungarian Jews to the Nazis.
However, Hungary had its own Nazi party called the Arrow-Cross Party. They eventually deposed Admiral Horthy in 1944 and then started shipping out Hungary’s Jews wholesale. Although many were killed in the concentration camps, the reason why a larger percentage of Jews in Hungary survived than in other countries in the region is that the Arrow Cross party did not have time to send them all. Horthy’s refusal did in the end save many Hungarian Jews.
My family visited Budapest’s Jewish museum several years ago. It included one area devoted to telling the history of the Holocaust in Hungary. The museum itself was small and traditional.
After we left the museum tour, we were appalled when we were standing in the courtyard next to the museum to hear a local English language tour guide tell a monumental lie to a visiting tour group. He told them that during WWII no Jews from Budapest were rounded up and none sent to their deaths and that only a very few Jews from the rural areas were affected. All documentary evidence and first hand accounts were thrown under the bus by this tour guide or whoever perhaps wrote the script he was delivering. We were shocked and furious to hear the vast untruth. We know people who lost their entire families from Budapest. The Shoes on the Danube in Budapest is one moving memorial to the city’s Holocaust victims.
We were told by a local college age student with whom we spoke that just the night before during the dead of night, the local government had removed a long, permanent outdoor Holocaust memorial. They removed it completely, sending a chill in the hearts of the Jewish community and others who abhor revisionism. So, revisionism of the well-documented, and personally experienced events of the Holocaust in Hungary were already rampant when we visited.