Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Bildungsgeschichte, Bevölkerungsgeschichte, Gesellschaftsgeschichte in den böhmischen Ländern und in Europa
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1988) 412-426
Keywords:
Tiso, Jozef,
;
Horthy, Miklos,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Argues that Horthy was a social antisemite and ambivalent in his attitude towards Jews. He was passive regarding anti-Jewish legislation, but resisted German demands to deport the Jews. When the deportations began, first from the countryside and then from Budapest, it took months before Horthy intervened. He later claimed that he did not know what took place in Auschwitz and was powerless to resist in the countryside where Hungarian military forces were weak. In fact he was probably indifferent to the fate of rural Jews but defended the economically important urban Jews. Tiso, in Slovakia, was head of a nationalist party with strong antisemitic elements. His antisemitism was probably no more radical than Horthy's but his puppet state had to conciliate the Germans. He allowed the deportation of 20,000 Jews, but intervened to save individuals. 35,000 remaining Jews were deported after the Germans occupied Slovakia in 1944.
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