Category: March 1944

Dr Ernő Munkácsi, Secretary of the Hungarian Central Jewish Council, left for posterity his first-hand account of the German occupation of 1944, describing the Hungarian Jewish community’s struggle for survival, the efforts of Jewish leaders in Budapest and Hungarian officials to ultimately thwart the deportation of Budapest Jews – while

1 History, as is so often repeated, is generally written by the victors. Sometimes, though, the victors are defeated and the suppressed voices of those the victors had intended to cast on the scrapheap of history are heard again. This does not mean the rewriting of the past, an exercise

On 17 March 1944, the Regent travelled to Klessheim at Hitler’s request. He was accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs Jenő Ghyczy, Minister of Defence Lajos Csatay, and Chief of the General Staff Szombathelyi. In Klessheim, they met for talks with Hitler and the German leaders on 18 March. Hitler