Throughout the Second World War, there were many people who were executed for war crimes
and for collaborating with the Nazis and the Germans.
Laszlo Baky was at the age of 47 led to an execution stake inside of Budapest, and alongside
other prominent politicians he was executed in front of a huge crowd.
He was a man who was had a prominent role during World War 2 inside of Hungarian government,
and he was a man who was responsible for the executions and deportations of thousands of
people.
inside of Auschwitz, 430,000 people in 56 murderous days were exterminated inside of
the concentration camp, and Laszlo Baky and many other people were responsible for this
huge murderous act as they were collaborating with the nazis.
But what is the story of the execution of Laszlo Baky?
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Laszlo Baky was born on the 13th September 1898 inside of Budapest, and he would become
a leading part of the Hungarian Nazi movement that came to fruition before and during the
Second World War.
As a young man he was a graduate from a military academy, and he was later involved in counter
revolutionary work within the army and the Gendarmerie.
But at the time inside of the force, there were many people who were leaving their positions
to join political groups such as the Right wing Hungarian National Socialist Party, and
Baky was one of those who chose to ditch a career in civilian enforcement and transition
into politics.
He would though as mention join the Hungarian Nazi party.
As soon as Hitler came into power, many people in Hungary began to sypamthise with the Nazi
cause, and there were a number of clone movements within the country.
The National Socialist Party of Work was set up in 1931, and it then became known as the
Sycthe Cross.
It was a small movement, but was the first fascist movement inside the country that called
for change to land and social reform.
Following this further fascist groups would emerge including the Arrow Cross Party, but
the Scythe Cross was the most strongly Nazi of the groups, and it’s manifesto was a
Hungarian Translated version of what the Nazis were propagating in Germany.
It was very anti semitic, and would encourage attacks against Jews and their property.
But other Nazi groups such as the Hungarian Nazi Agricultural Labourers and Workers party
which was created in 1933 was made, and this appealed to peasants who had no land.
The members became known as the greenshirts for their uniforms, and they also adopted
the arrow cross as three symbol.
But at the same time, a Hungarian politician who had previously served as the Minister
of Defence set up his own Hungarian National Socialist People’s Party.
There were other Nazi groups emerging across the land, and this group established the swastika
as their emblem and they even tried to make their own SA and SS but on a smaller scale.
The party looked for inspiration from Hitler and Nazi Germany, but many of the groups would
later become banned inside of Hungary and they would then continue underground.
There were attempts to unite the different Nazi elements of Hungarian society, with two
parties becoming the Nazi Party of Hungary in 1935, but the Sycthe Cross would rebel
as they wanted to remain independent and they would continue with their antisemitic and
anti communist rhetoric.
They were seen as a danger by the regent’s government, and they would organise a rebellion
on May Day 1936 and thousands of supporters mobilised and planned to march on Budapest,
but they were no match for the army and were dealt with quickly.
But still as the Second World War broke out there were many more right wing Nazi politicians
who would come to power.
One of these was Laszlo Baky, who joined the Hungarian National Socialist Party, and he
remained a member of the group as there was a huge amount of change.
In 1939 he was elected as a deputy and was a member of a Nazi coalition group.
But he was someone who was close to Nazi Germany and he would become the editor of a German
funded Hungarian newspaper that would publish many different pieces of nazi propaganda.
He was also an ally of other powerful Hungarian officials including Fidel Palffy and he united
with the followers of Ferenc Szalasi to form a bigger coalition of like minded politicians
and members of the Hungarian military.
But Hungary would be allied with the Nazis as part of the Axis alliance, and following
the nazi invasion and occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Baky became the State Secretary
in the Ministry of the Interior, and along with other state secretary Laszlo Endre, Baky
was heavily involved in the deportations of the country’s jews to the extermination
camps within the Third Reich.
He collaborated with the Nazis and the SS to make sure that hundreds of thousands of
Jews were deported to the extermination and concentration camps.
Baky wrote, ‘The royal Hungarian government will soon have the country purged of jews,
I order the purge to be carried out by the regions.
As a result of the purge, irrespective of sex or age, all are to be transported to assigned
concentration camps.
For a brief time these deportations stopped, but they resumed with politicians like Endre,
Baky collaborating with the nazis and with prominent men such as Adolf Eichmann who organised
the holocaust.
The Jews would have their possessions seized and they would be at times then moved into
ghettos before they were sent to Germany.
Under direction from Eichmann, Laszlo Bay would begin to round up Jews in the Eastern
parts of Hungary two days later.
But he was the sacked from government during summer 1944 within months of coming into power,
and he would be then arrested for allegedly conspiring and trying to lead a coup against
the Hungarian Regent.
Then the deportation of Jews was stopped, but Baky would later come back to power along
with the Arrow Cross Party with Ferenc Szalasi acting as Prime Minister.
But he continue to deport and slaughter thousands, but it was looking clearer that the situation
for the Germans during the Second World War was not going well, and with this Baky fled
Hungary in 1945, but he was then arrested in Austria before he was sent back to Budapest.
Along with other prominent nazi collaborators including Laszlo Endre, Baky was tried and
was then sentenced to dearth by the Hungarian state and he was to be executed in Budapest.
On the 29th March 1946 he was brought out in front of the Academy of Music in the Hungarian
capital, and was to be executed by Pole Hanging.
An assistant of the executioner helped to prepare Baky for his execution and he secured
his hands and legs by tying them.
The executioner then passed the rope around his middle before he was led to his gallows
and he was secured to the pole or post, and then the rope was passed around his neck.
When the neck was released and the stool he was stood on was taken away, the executioner
within minutes choked him and executed him.
Laszlo Baky one of many Hungarian war criminals who would during the Second World War inflict
such suffering and misery to so many people inside of his nation.
He was a man who was in the pockets of the SS and the Nazis and because of this he was
a collaborator and his actions saw hundreds of thousands of people being sent to camps
such as Auschwitz where they were killed minutes after arriving at the site.
His regime were responsible for the executions of so many, and because of this many of the
leaders were executed themselves at the end of the Second World War.
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