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Summary. It CAN happen here!
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Jan 1945. Fake birth certificates. Communist move in everywhere.
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Arrow cross killings; Szalasi begins to fold; Swiss and Swedish help
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Christmas, 1944. Arrowcross atrocities. Eichmann's final plan. Endless killings
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Forced march to Austria Nov 1944. International ghetto opened
Russia enters Pest
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Preparations for forced-march deportations. 155,000 Jews still in Budapest. International attempts to rescue. Nov ,44
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PM Von Horthy tries to surrender to get out of war. Hitler replaces him Oct 15, 44 with Szalasi. Arrow-Cross gangs terrorize the Jews openly. Jews suffer even more.
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Efforts to save Jews. Fake birth Certificates. More street violence. How the Allies failed the Jews. Soup kitchens.
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April, 44. More Jewish restrictions. Confiscation of wealth. Jewish stores closed. Sweden, Switzerland step in to help Jews. Ransom plan attempted. Fails!
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1943-44. Hungary tries to evade Hitler's request for total mobilization. Sept 43, Italy out of war.. March, 44, Wehrmacht invades Hungary. Jewish arm bands. Eichmann arrives in Hungary in April. Shadow rescues start. Jewish restrictions worsen.
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A young Hungarian soldier was caught up in the events of the holocaust during WWII. He became a partisan and took notes of what he saw. Fifty years later, in 1998, he wrote a documentary detailing…
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