Why do so many middle-class Hungarians – even those who are known for their pride in a kingdom a thousand years old – leave for another continent, struggle to learn another language, and adjust to living in a very different culture? Each of my family members had his or her
At about half way in the course of the Second World War, I shocked my family by using a foreign phrase for the first time. The word came from the dictator of a neighbouring state, Nazi Germany, our dreaded enemy. My family’s policy was to keep us children in the
The critical information that sealed the fate of Nazi Germany came from a team of fewer than six young civilians crowded in a small room in a ramshackle government building a few blocks from the White House. The youngest who called himself a mathematician had just finished high school; another
Zoltán Álgya-Pap was the only Hungarian general in the Second World War who received the coveted gold medal for extraordinary courage in face of enemy fire. Like most of the country’s military by 1944, his troops were dispirited, sick of the war and the Germans who on 19 March that year not only occupied their nominal ally Hungary but in fact took control of
Is oral history worth the paper it is printed on? Does it not hint at facts missed by historians? Could it serve as a footnote in their chronicles? Two of my sources – thoughtful men with minds more at home in a distant era than I ever will be –
VIII. A LOST OPPORTUNITY, A CLASH OF VISIONS US–Hungarian negotiations had dragged on for too long, close to half a year. As in the case of the delay of six weeks spent by the Allies and the anti-Nazi Badoglio government to negotiate an armistice, the Germans were given ample time
V. Negotiations Stall In late 1943, the Allies were on a roll. Italy no longer carried weight as Germany’s principal European partner, and the Allies built up Joseph Broz-Tito’s ragtag bands of communist outlaws to the point that they challenged German control over a sizeable chunk of prewar Yugoslavia. The
(Excerpts from a book in progress) Go to, go to;You take a precipice for no leap of danger.And woo your own destruction.Shakespeare: King Henry VIII. A small nation wedged between the Third Reich and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Hungary joined the Second World War in 1941 on the
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