Behind the Aegis
Hungary never did a really good work in going true trials, to get the guilty ones after WW2 punished for their crimes when most of the minorities in Hungary was by train showled off to Auschwitz to be killed there.. Even many years after the war, when some nazi-hunters was following up on informations about hungarians who lived in the country as free men and woman - it was very difficult to get the government of Hungary to do anything to arrest them. Even if the evidences was documented - the hungarian officials would often just turn the blind aye to the case - and in most cases it was when the suspect was leaving the country - many emigrated to the US in fact - then some was arrested, and after tedious and difficult trials, some was punished, by a rather "brief" prison sentence, as many Judges was not capable or willing to let the whole case be documented - and as such, people who had killed many, could be given a couple of years - or a decade in a prison - rather than be looked up for the rest of their life....
And then we have the far right party Jobbik, who in many cases is the same party who had power, in the inter-war period, and who was rather synaptic to the nazi cause from 1934 and forward - as Hungary for the most part, was far forward in the curve, to make it almost impossible for minorities like jews to have a decent life, and who from 1939, when germany was in play for real - worked closely to arrest, put jews in prison camps and KZ camps - and then when the germans asked them to give them all their jews, was pleased to let them get it... And it was not before 1944, when most of the Hungarian jews was killed of, that the Hungarian government finally, after sending far to many to their death, stooped the practice - and was overturned by the more radical nazi-friendly parties - but who in 1944 was on the lost leg of their powers - as the Soviets was marching west, to Hitlers end in 1945...
The Jobnik is nothing less than a neo-nazi party - who use many of the same tools to make their presence shown, as the "iron-guard" of the inter-war and the war period.. They are no shy of using the rhetoric - and the same brutal methods to force their will on their opponent - and they are not shy of violent hate crimes - something that specially the egyptis in Hungary have experienced for full the last couple of years....
Anti-Semites is sorry to say - in some parts of Europe on the rise.. For the most part it is on the rise in the old Eastern Block - as many, if not most of them have experienced some nasty cases the last couple of decades - and where the governments have yet to really do something with the past.. In the west, for the most part, we are educated about what happened in World War two - not just the war itself - but also about the killing and murders of minorities in Europe... In many eastern European nations, it all ended in the dark shadows of the cold war - and many was never really told the reality of World War two - other than, first they was the victims of Hitler - then victims of Stalin...
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