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Soviet soldiers raise the red flag on top of the New York Palace in Budapest on 13 February 1945.

The Siege of Budapest — A Terrible Winter

On Christmas Eve in 1944 the Soviet troops encircled Budapest, and the siege commenced a few days later, on 30 December. The fighting that went on for months caused enormous suffering and destruction, and became part of Hungary’s collective memory…
President Katalin Novák with the relatives of the Hungarian–Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas, in Jerusalem, 5 November 2023.

Israel and Hungary: Two Nations United

‘Many Jewish citizens from European nations like Sweden are enduring levels of hostility that are non-existent in Hungary. In contrast, Yacov Hadas-Handelsman, the current Israeli ambassador to Hungary, earlier this year named Hungary as one of the safest nations for…
German soldiers marching in Buda in 1944.

Horthy’s Attempt to Exit WWII: Missed Opportunity or Inevitable Failure?

On 15 October 1944, Horthy made an unsuccessful attempt to exit the Second World War. The operation failed due to a number of reasons: the resistance of some officers of the Royal Hungarian Army, organisational mistakes and pre-emptive actions by…
Flowers laid on the triangular stone at the centre of a memorial pool of the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism at the Tiergarten in Berlin on 27 January 2023.

Roma Holocaust: ‘A Methodical Attack on Our Most Fundamental Values’  

In her address marking Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, Fidesz MEP Livia Járóka said: ‘Almost 80 years later, it is still clear that what happened at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was genocide and a series of crimes against humanity in which…

Heroes or War Criminals? — Contradictory Stories of WWII Labour Service Guards

Research into WWII labour service has unearthed several cases of army men who, while perhaps not immaculate individuals, did try to help certain Jews. Such research helps posterity understand the history of labour service better and historians paint a more…

National Holocaust Memorial Day — A Tragic Opportunity to Recall the German Demands Regarding Hungarian Jews

The Germans had demanded the deportation of the Hungarian Jewry long before the German occupation. A note in October 1942, in which German Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Luther summarised his negotiations with Sztójay, the Hungarian ambassador in Berlin at the…

‘As Long As I Live, It Is My Duty to Tell Our Story’ — An Interview with a Hungarian Holocaust Survivor

‘Through the gaps in the door, I saw Arrow Cross members leading people to the Danube bank to be shot to death. I also witnessed that those who could no longer walk were shot dead then and there, on the…

A Witness of Three Hells: Lutheran Bishop Sándor Raffay in the Vortex of the Twentieth Century

‘I myself believe that extreme politics, whether right-wing or left-wing, is equally half-hearted, harmful and dangerous.’…

A Legacy of Many Interpretations — The Pro- and Anti-Nazi Followers of Prohászka

In this piece, we will present an interesting albeit largely forgotten debate that raged in the early ‘40s about Prohászka’s legacy and the expression Hungarianism….
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Forced Parallels, Blurred Boundaries – Arrow Cross Men and others on Trial

The Sovietisation of Hungary demanded the discrediting of all liberal, democratic and capitalistic traditions as undesirable, and therefore a “straight line” had to be drawn from the white counter-revolution of 1919 to the 1944 October Arrow-Cross takeover….

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