Posted on 03/29/2023 5:41:30 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1946, fascist Hungarian politicians Laszlo Baky and Laszlo Endre were executed by hanging in Budapest for their role in the decimation of Hungarian Jewry.
These two charmers were major figures in Hungary’s horrible final months of World War II.
Post-Stalingrad, the Hungarians had realized they were yoked to the losing side and started looking for an exit strategy; instead, early in 1944, they got a German occupation.
This occupation lifted the virulent anti-semites Baky and Endre into national power, because along with keeping Hungary in the Axis coalition, the Nazis also forcibly overcame its junior partner’s former reticence about Jewish genocide.
Adolf Eichmann arrived into Nazified Hungary and used our day’s two principals (along with another executed collaborator, Andor Jaross, they’re known as the “deportation trio”) as his instruments. Within months, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped to the gas chambers. This period is one of the waypoints of pernicious Nazi race theory, when the collapsing German regime spent military resources urgently needed at the front to organize the mass slaughter of Jews.*
And they had to work fast, because by that next winter the Red Army was seizing Budapest. These enthusiastic fascist operators did not fare well by the postwar government....
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Thought it was about Peter Lorre.
A guy from Bosnia once told me if you’re a small country in Europe you just get pushed around by the larger powers.
From what older Hungarians told me there was little choice in the matter, either join the Axis powers or they’d kill you and find a politician who would.
Not to say there were not collaborators, just that the country really was forced into the situation.
At the time, Soros was too young to be executed alongside them.
The only thing stopping the democrats from more mass murder is the hundreds of millions of gun the good guys have!
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