Why did the Hungarian people let their Jews be eliminated in ww2,even though they were totally integrated?
I read that the Hungarians knew what was going on,because of Germany,Poland ,etc,but still didn’t stop it.Why?
I read that the Hungarians knew what was going on,because of Germany,Poland ,etc,but still didn’t stop it.Why?
July 26th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
The Hungarian people were living under a dictatorship that controlled the media, the police, the armed forces etc they had no say whatever in what happened to the jews.
July 26th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
because they were occupied by the germans and had no say in what was going on
July 27th, 2010 at 12:04 am
integration was skin deep. The Hungarian state willing allied with the third Reich. The state co-operated fully in shipping the Jewish people to the death camps.
Anti-semitism was just as common in Hungary as elsewhere.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:01 am
They were allies of the Nazis and the government at least was happy to do Hitlers bidding with regard to the Final Solution.
July 27th, 2010 at 2:41 am
Hungary, Austria, and Bulgaria all voluntarily joined the Third Reich. They believed in Nazism and Hitler, and saw the National Socialists as saviors. They did not resist sending off their Jews because they, also wanted to seize Jewish companies, live in Jewish homes, rape Jewish girls and boys … they were Nazis!
July 27th, 2010 at 4:19 am
The Nazis had occupied the country and the Arrow Cross Party government colluded with them, so the Hungarian people weren’t given any say in the matter.
July 27th, 2010 at 5:09 am
I might well be wrong here, most of all after reading the first answer. I thought the Hungarians fought on the side of Hitler, therefore would have followed his ruling relating to Jews. My apology’s to all Hungarians if my memory is up the creek.
July 27th, 2010 at 5:13 am
The Hungarians were in fact extremely reluctant to let their jews to be sent to Auschwitz. Horthy resisted German pressure to do so in 1943, so the Germans finally just marched into Hungary in March 1944. For a few months the jews were sent to Auschwitz, because the Hungarians basically had no choice at the time. But following the German disaster in Russia (bagratian), i.e. in July 1944, Horthy stopped the deportations. The reich was clearly losing and, it seemed, had been weakened enough for the Hungarians to opt out of the alliance with it.