A little over a year ago I paid him a visit in his home in America. “Just tell the driver ‘Valley Forge Memorial Chapel’, and I’ll meet you in front of the church”, John Lukács had instructed me on the phone. I steeped myself in the history of George Washington’s
Part II Even after Teleki’s tragic death it remained politically practicable for politicians in the highest places to organise both secret foreign policy and Hungarian anti-Nazi resistance while at the same time behaving as allies of Germany. As British historian C. A. Macartney remarked with much insight: “the fact there
EXCERPTS II BIRTH OF THE MFM – HUNGARIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT, 1943 As to my opinion, I had, at least since the preparation of my long report of March 1939 (Cf. MS-III, pp. 441–443) which had dealt with the features of and developments in the international situation, little doubt if any as to Germany’s future doom and destruction. As I wrote on some of the first
On 25 October 1956 one of the biggest mass murders in Europe in the second half of the 20th century took place on Kossuth Square in front of the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest. Three books have been published about this tragedy and the event is – at least in part – studied in many more publications. Despite this,
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himselfaccording to the outcome, he would never begin.Even though the result may gladden the wholeworld, that cannot help the hero; for he knows theresult only when the whole thing is over, and that isnot how he became a hero, but by
MY WORK AT THE PREMIER’S OFFICE BEGINS Having obtained my two doctor’s diplomas, during the next fourteen years I spent most of my time outside Hungary, first in post-graduate studies abroad, then in the Hungarian diplomatic corps. It was in the autumn of 1935 that I was transferred from North
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
Bucharest, March 2010 On 2 March 1949 a law was adopted under which all estates of fifty hectares or more and all model farms were nationalised. The deportation of the nobility and wealthy farmers in the early morning of 3 March 1949 was no small operation for the Romanian Communist
I My most vivid glimpse of Domokos Szent-Iványi dates from the second half of 1947. We are making our rounds, deep in conversation, side by side in the enclosed courtyard of the Central Collecting Prison of Budapest. It is a huge redbrick complex situated, quite fittingly, next to the city’s
In the 1920s and 1930s Joseph Stalin was usually cordial and obliging with his foreign visitors. But with the passing of time, he dropped this pretence of affability in the presence of guests from abroad with increasing frequency. On such occasions “Uncle Joe”, as he was referred to by Roosevelt
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