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  • It was not till the German occupation of Hungary in the teeth of his protests, in March 1944 and the take-over by the local Nazis, the Nyilas party that the local Holocaust of Jews and Roma became possible.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Richard 2007

  • He describes the swearing in of the new recruits, the use of the flag and the black and white uniform, which does, no matter how often it is ridiculed, remind people of the Nyilas party, the local Nazis who took over after the Germans had moved in and overthrew Admiral Horthy’s government in 1944.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Helen 2007

  • He describes the swearing in of the new recruits, the use of the flag and the black and white uniform, which does, no matter how often it is ridiculed, remind people of the Nyilas party, the local Nazis who took over after the Germans had moved in and overthrew Admiral Horthy’s government in 1944.

    Those pesky East Europeans Helen 2007

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  • "The Nyilas were the Hungarian Nazis. They were barbarians, a militia of armed thugs who roamed the streets rounding up Jews and either killing them on the spot or taking them to their party houses for torture and slaughter. They were more vicious to Jews than the Germans or the Hungarian police. Nyilas comes from the Hungarian word for arrow. Their emblem was two crossed arrows similar to the German swastika."

    Robert L. Brent, in Irvin D. Yalom & Robert L. Brent, I'm Calling the Police (New York: Basic Books, 2011)

    January 30, 2016