Antisemitic writings of the Arrow-Cross emigration
TitleAntisemitic writings of the Arrow-Cross emigration
Call number940.5318/0150
Object number05031BE
Place of publicationHampshire
PublisherPalgrave
Year of publication
2001
Physical descriptionpp 897-910
MaterialArticle
ISBN333804864
NotesPapers from "Remembering for the Future" conference held in Oxford on 14-17th July 2000 Volume 1: History pp 897-910
Description
Considers the role of the Hungarian "Arrow Cross" movement and its relations with the country's Jews before, during and after World War II. Extremely right-wing, its members killed Jews during the war and later fled to other countries including Australia. After 1951, the party hoped the US would liberate Central and Eastern Europe from communism. In this climate anti-Semitism and anti-Communism were easily conflated. Arrow Cross propaganda sought to minimise the numbers of Holocaust victims and to misrepresent the Nuremberg trials as the Jews' revenge. Belatedly, Hungarian authorities applied for the extradition of Hungarian war criminals from the countries in which they had found refuge.