Language:
Hungarian
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Füzetek
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (2000) 170-188
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
Abstract:
Presents background information on the anti-Jewish laws and decrees in Hungary between 1920-44. Describes discriminatory measures after March 1944. Quotes from the diaries of the poet Miklós Radnóti, the writer Milán Füst, and the editor Miksa Fenyő, all of them Jews. Deals, also, with memoirs by the Hungarian political, diplomatic, and military elite, noting their attitude to the Jewish question. These memoirs, written after the war, are characterized by self-justification and claims of defending Hungarian Jews by passing the anti-Jewish laws (to appease the Germans). Colonel-General Nagybaczoni, Minister of Defense in 1942-43, condemned by the extreme right as an agent of the Jews, blamed the military high command for the atrocities and the killings committed against labor servicemen. According to his estimate, only 5,000 labor servicemen survived out of 50,000.
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