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JW3 Hungary Synopsis 16th June

HUNGARY: WORLD WAR II.

From Authoritarianism to Authoritarianism


  1. The policies of Horthy leads Hungary to side with Germany

  2. The rise of local Hungarians Fascists - The Arrow Cross

  3. The Holocaust leaves a dreadful stain on Hungarian history that can never be erased

  4. Good People, Bad People

Laszlo Biro, Raoul Wallenberg, Hannah Szenes

Laszlo Csatary, Sandor Kepiro, Adolf Eichmann

5. Horthy opens talks with USSR, deposed by Germans, Arrow Cross taste power

6. Siege of Budapest 1944-45

7. Soviet victory

8. Postscript - House of Terror, Budapest



Book : Siege of Budapest 1944-45 by Balazs Mihalyi (Osprey)



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