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Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya was born at Kenderes to an untitled lower nobility, descended from István Horti, ennobled by King Ferdinand II in 1635. [15] His father, István Horthy de Nagybánya (not to be confused with István Horthy, Horthy's eldest son), was a member of the House of Magnates, the upper chamber of the Diet of Hungary, and lord of a 610-hectare (1,500-acre) estate. [16]
The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈkiraːjʃaːɡ]), referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to 1946 [a] under the rule of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, who officially represented the Hungarian monarchy.
Horthy was created Prince of Otranto & Szeged and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresia, both distinctions which he didn't use. [8] A tentative three-week truce was reached that both men interpreted differently. Horthy expected Charles to leave Hungary and either march on Vienna or retire to Switzerland. Charles ...
In early July 1944, Horthy stopped the deportations, and after the failed attempt on Hitler's life, the Germans backed off from pressing Horthy's regime to continue further, large-scale deportations, although some smaller groups continued to be deported by train. In late August, Horthy refused Eichmann's request to restart the deportations.
Late in the Second World War, at the time of the joint coup d’état by which the German Nazis and the Arrow Cross Party overthrew the Regent of Hungary, Miklós Horthy (r. 1920–1944), the Red Army occupied most of the Kingdom of Hungary, which effectively limited the authority of the Government of National Unity to the city of Budapest and its environs as the Hungarian capital city.
Although Horthy was an intractable anti-Communist, his dealings with the Nazis led him to conclude the Soviets were the lesser evil. The Soviets willingly promised that Hungary would remain autonomous and sovereign. Horthy governed from Castle Hill in central Budapest, an ancient and now well-guarded fortress. He blamed the German government ...
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Madam Horthy appeared in public extremely rarely. In essence, the family had a modest life when taking into account Horthy's position; the highest point of it was the annual garden-party. Their residence was in the Buda Castle when they were in Budapest and they took up nine rooms (of 814 in total). The Horthy family's retreat was at Kenderes ...