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Next on the list; Hungary's prime minister Pál Count Teleki de Szék. :)
I picked him up because he was moral hero to his people. He is a controversial figure in Hungarian history because while he was Prime Minister a number of anti-Jewish laws were enacted while he also walked a very difficult political tightrope, striving to preserve Hungarian autonomy up to the last moment of his life.
Pál Count Teleki de Szék (1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941) was prime minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 19 July 1920 to 14 April 1921 and from 16 February 1939 to 3 April 1941.
Rejoining the government in 1938 as Minister of Education, Teleki supported Third Reich's take over of Czechoslovakia with the hopes that the dismemberment of Hungary completed in the 1920 "Treaty of Trianon" would be undone. On 16 February 1939, Hungary's Premier Béla Imrédy, who had been known as a pro-fascist, anti-Semitic leader, was forced from office after it was revealed that he was of Jewish descent. Teleki became Prime Minister for the second time on 15 February 1939. While he strove to close down several fascist political parties, he did nothing to end existing anti-Semitic laws.
On 1 September 1939, Third Reich invaded Poland. It demanded use of the Hungarian railway system through Kassa, Hungary, so that Reich's troops could attack Poland from the south. Hungary had traditionally strong ties with Poland, and Teleki refused Third Reich's demand.
As a result of Teleki's refusal to cooperate with Third Reich, during the autumn of 1939 and the summer of 1940 more than 100,000 Polish soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians, many of them Jewish, escaped from Poland and crossed the border into Hungary. The Hungarian government then permitted the Polish Red Cross and the Polish Catholic Church to operate in the open. The Polish soldiers were formally interned, but most of them managed to flee to France by spring of 1940, thanks to indulgent or friendly attitude of officials.
In March 1941, Teleki strongly objected to Hungarian participation in the invasion of Yugoslavia. Given Hungary's resistance to aiding Third Reich.
A situation got worsed on 25 March 1941 when the Yugoslavian Prime Minister, Dragisa Cvetkovic, and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Aleksandar Cincar Marković, traveled to Vienna and signed the Tripartite Pact. In the late evening on 26/27 March 1941, Air Force Generals Dušan Simović and Borivoje Mirković had executed a bloodless coup d'état and had refuted signatures on the alliance and accepted a British guarantee of security instead. Third Reich saw its southern flank potentially exposed just as it was preparing "Operation Barbarossa", the invasion of Soviet Union. Third Reich planned to invade Yugoslavia and compel it to remain part of the Axis. Hitler used Hungary's membership in the Tripartite Pact to demand that Hungary join in.
Teleki had signed a non-aggression and "Treaty of Eternal Friendship" with Yugoslavia in 12 December 1940, only five months previously, and would not assent to assisting with the invasion. Teleki relayed his government's position to London, seeking allowance for Hungary’s difficult position.
Teleki's enduring desire was to keep Hungary non-aligned, yet it could not ignore Third Reich's dominant influence. Teleki was now faced with two bad choices. He could continue to resist Third Reich's demands for their help in the invasion of Yugoslavia, although he knew this would likely mean that after Third Reich conquered Yugoslavia, it would next turn its attention to Hungary. Or he could allow Third Reich troops to cross Hungarian territory, even though this would betray Yugoslavia and lead the Allies to declare war on Hungary.
Horthy, who until this time had resisted Third Reich's pressure, agreed to Third Reich's demands. Teleki met with the cabinet council that evening. He complained that the Regent had "told me thirty-four times that he would never make war for foreign interests, and now he has changed his mind."
Before Teleki could chart a course through the political thicket, the decision was torn from him by General Werth, chief of the Hungarian General Staff. Without the sanction of the Hungarian government, Werth, of German origin, made private arrangements with the Third Reich High Command for the transport of the Reich's troops across Hungary. Teleki denounced Werth's action as treason.
On 3 April 1941, Reich's army march into Hungary. Teleki committed suicide with a pistol during the night and was found the next morning. His suicide note said in part:
"We broke our word, - out of cowardice [...] The nation feels it, and we have thrown away its honor. We have allied ourselves to scroundels [...] We will become body-snatchers! A nation of trash. I did not hold you back. I am guilty"
To most Hungarians, Teleki was a national hero, who tried to avoid Hungary's involvement in World War II. He tried to save what could be saved, under political and military pressure from Third Reich, and like the Polish government in exile, to try to survive in some fashion during the war years to come.
I picked him up because he was moral hero to his people. He is a controversial figure in Hungarian history because while he was Prime Minister a number of anti-Jewish laws were enacted while he also walked a very difficult political tightrope, striving to preserve Hungarian autonomy up to the last moment of his life.
Pál Count Teleki de Szék (1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941) was prime minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 19 July 1920 to 14 April 1921 and from 16 February 1939 to 3 April 1941.
Rejoining the government in 1938 as Minister of Education, Teleki supported Third Reich's take over of Czechoslovakia with the hopes that the dismemberment of Hungary completed in the 1920 "Treaty of Trianon" would be undone. On 16 February 1939, Hungary's Premier Béla Imrédy, who had been known as a pro-fascist, anti-Semitic leader, was forced from office after it was revealed that he was of Jewish descent. Teleki became Prime Minister for the second time on 15 February 1939. While he strove to close down several fascist political parties, he did nothing to end existing anti-Semitic laws.
On 1 September 1939, Third Reich invaded Poland. It demanded use of the Hungarian railway system through Kassa, Hungary, so that Reich's troops could attack Poland from the south. Hungary had traditionally strong ties with Poland, and Teleki refused Third Reich's demand.
As a result of Teleki's refusal to cooperate with Third Reich, during the autumn of 1939 and the summer of 1940 more than 100,000 Polish soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians, many of them Jewish, escaped from Poland and crossed the border into Hungary. The Hungarian government then permitted the Polish Red Cross and the Polish Catholic Church to operate in the open. The Polish soldiers were formally interned, but most of them managed to flee to France by spring of 1940, thanks to indulgent or friendly attitude of officials.
In March 1941, Teleki strongly objected to Hungarian participation in the invasion of Yugoslavia. Given Hungary's resistance to aiding Third Reich.
A situation got worsed on 25 March 1941 when the Yugoslavian Prime Minister, Dragisa Cvetkovic, and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Aleksandar Cincar Marković, traveled to Vienna and signed the Tripartite Pact. In the late evening on 26/27 March 1941, Air Force Generals Dušan Simović and Borivoje Mirković had executed a bloodless coup d'état and had refuted signatures on the alliance and accepted a British guarantee of security instead. Third Reich saw its southern flank potentially exposed just as it was preparing "Operation Barbarossa", the invasion of Soviet Union. Third Reich planned to invade Yugoslavia and compel it to remain part of the Axis. Hitler used Hungary's membership in the Tripartite Pact to demand that Hungary join in.
Teleki had signed a non-aggression and "Treaty of Eternal Friendship" with Yugoslavia in 12 December 1940, only five months previously, and would not assent to assisting with the invasion. Teleki relayed his government's position to London, seeking allowance for Hungary’s difficult position.
Teleki's enduring desire was to keep Hungary non-aligned, yet it could not ignore Third Reich's dominant influence. Teleki was now faced with two bad choices. He could continue to resist Third Reich's demands for their help in the invasion of Yugoslavia, although he knew this would likely mean that after Third Reich conquered Yugoslavia, it would next turn its attention to Hungary. Or he could allow Third Reich troops to cross Hungarian territory, even though this would betray Yugoslavia and lead the Allies to declare war on Hungary.
Horthy, who until this time had resisted Third Reich's pressure, agreed to Third Reich's demands. Teleki met with the cabinet council that evening. He complained that the Regent had "told me thirty-four times that he would never make war for foreign interests, and now he has changed his mind."
Before Teleki could chart a course through the political thicket, the decision was torn from him by General Werth, chief of the Hungarian General Staff. Without the sanction of the Hungarian government, Werth, of German origin, made private arrangements with the Third Reich High Command for the transport of the Reich's troops across Hungary. Teleki denounced Werth's action as treason.
On 3 April 1941, Reich's army march into Hungary. Teleki committed suicide with a pistol during the night and was found the next morning. His suicide note said in part:
"We broke our word, - out of cowardice [...] The nation feels it, and we have thrown away its honor. We have allied ourselves to scroundels [...] We will become body-snatchers! A nation of trash. I did not hold you back. I am guilty"
To most Hungarians, Teleki was a national hero, who tried to avoid Hungary's involvement in World War II. He tried to save what could be saved, under political and military pressure from Third Reich, and like the Polish government in exile, to try to survive in some fashion during the war years to come.
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Hungarian, eh? Then you'll probably like her. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8749199/ . She's one of my super heroines and she's Hungarian.
I'm guessing you mean the crooked cross? Yeah, they're supposed to be outlawed in Germania. Sad things is, they're been a part of human culture for a long time, being a symbol for good, just that it ended up with a bad crowd through no fault of its own.
We,, being a history graduate (with both a BA and MA), I'd just continue learning, filling in the gaps that school or college left out.
We,, being a history graduate (with both a BA and MA), I'd just continue learning, filling in the gaps that school or college left out.
I don't even know why, this is weird...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPpqxyw8CLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPpqxyw8CLE
I already said it, but I would repeat myself: your historical accuracy is awesome, pal! Great choice for Hungary! Maybe Teleki wasn't the classical rough and tumble, war-living classical hero, but sure was a man who did his best to preserve the autonomy of his contry during some allarming period as the Worl War II, so he deserve to be classified as an hero too.
Btw, a mountain goat? Well... I hate goats! But that is a personal things, not an objective assessment, so let's just says the picture is... Farly well made.
Btw, a mountain goat? Well... I hate goats! But that is a personal things, not an objective assessment, so let's just says the picture is... Farly well made.
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