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Hungary police oust protestors from WWII monument site
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Published: 01.05.14, 00:17
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1. Hungary sheltered Jews, tried to surrender, until May 1944
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.01.14)
"On March 19, 1944 German troops occupied Hungary, prime minister Miklós Kállay was deposed and soon mass deportations of Jews to German death camps in occupied Poland began. SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann went to Hungary to oversee the large-scale deportations. Between 15 May and 9 July, Hungarian authorities deported 437,402 Jews. " -Wikipedia, Hungary in World War II
2. #1 "Hungary sheltered Jews"
GS ,   Germany   (05.01.14)
Thats not what your Wikipedia-piece says. Bring evidence for your remark "Hungary sheltered Jews".
3. 2, G o o g l e "Hungary in World War II" ...fool
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.01.14)
"In September 1944, Soviet forces crossed the Hungarian border. On 15 October, Horthy announced that Hungary had signed an armistice with the Soviet Union. The Hungarian army ignored the armistice, fighting desperately to keep the Soviets out. The Germans launched Operation Panzerfaust and, by kidnapping his son Miklós Horthy, Jr., forced Horthy to abrogate the armistice, depose the Lakatos government, and name the leader of the Arrow Cross Party, Ferenc Szálasi, as Prime Minister. Horthy resigned and Szálasi became Prime Minister of a new "Government of National Unity" (Nemzeti Összefogás Kormánya) controlled by the Germans. Horthy himself was taken to Germany as a prisoner. He ultimately survived the war and spent his last years exiled in Portugal, dying in 1957. In cooperation with the Nazis, Szálasi attempted to resume deportations of Jews, but Germany's fast-disintegrating communications largely prevented this from happening. Nonetheless, the Arrow Cross launched a reign of terror against the Jews of Budapest. Thousands were tortured, raped and murdered in the last months of the war, and their property looted or destroyed. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of Budapest Jews using Swedish protective passports. He was ultimately taken prisoner by the Soviets and died some years later in a labor camp. Other foreign diplomats like Nuncio Angelo Rotta, Giorgio Perlasca, Carl Lutz, Friedrich Born, Harald Feller, Angel Sanz Briz and George Mandel-Mantello also organized false papers and safe houses for Jews in Budapest. Of the approximately 800,000 Jews residing within Hungary's expanded borders of 1941, only 200,000 (about 25%) survived the Holocaust.[12] An estimated 28,000 Hungarian Roma were also killed as part of the Porajmos." -Wikipedia, Hungary in World War II
4. To # 1 and 3 benASSi:
Steven ,   Rockville MD USA   (05.03.14)
Hungary sheltered the Hungurian Jews (as you quote your Bible the Google), yet 75% of the 800,000 Hungarian perished in 1944. Some kind of sheltering, only pinhead like you falls for it. I was there as I young boy and survived, but not me or any body else noticed any sheltering. Better if you stay out of it and just fade away.
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