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Last moments before the execution of the Hungarian Fascist leader, Ferenc Szálasi (1946)

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Last moments before the execution of the Hungarian Fascist leader, Ferenc Szálasi (1946) Ferenc Szálasi was tried by the People’s Tribunal in Budapest in open sessions and sentenced to death for war crimes and high treason Ferenc Szálasi was the leader and all-powerful head of the fascist Arrow Cross movement, the regime that came to power in Hungary with the armed assistance of Nazi Germany on October 15-16, 1944. After that date, the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews was in his hands. During his brief rule, Szálasi’s men murdered 10,000–15,000 Jews Szálasi’s hatred of the Jews was a pillar of his Weltanschauung. He seriously believed in the theory of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. In June 1943, he declared that the Jews, de facto and de jure, ruled the word: “Plutocracy, freemasonry, the liberal democracy, parliamentarism, and the Marxism are all but instruments in the hands of Jews so that they can hang onto their power and control over the world”. Firmly believing hims...