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The Arrow Cross Party (Hungarian: Nyilaskeresztes Párt – Hungarista Mozgalom, lit. ' Arrow Cross Party – Hungarist Movement ', abbreviated NYKP) was a far-right Hungarian ultranationalist party led by Ferenc Szálasi, which formed a government in Hungary they named the Government of National Unity.
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.
When Soviet forces began threatening Hungary, an armistice was signed between Hungary and the USSR by Regent Miklós Horthy. Soon afterward, Horthy's son was kidnapped by German commandos and Horthy was forced to revoke the armistice. The Regent was then deposed from power, while Hungarian fascist leader Ferenc Szálasi established a new ...
Hungarian Nazis (2 C, 8 P) U. Unity Party (Hungary) politicians (17 P) Pages in category "Hungarian fascists" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 ...
With a succession of increasingly nationalist prime ministers, Hungary steadily came to resent the Treaty of Trianon, and aligned itself with Europe's two fascist states, Germany and Italy, which both opposed the changes to national borders in Europe at the end of World War I.
The operation was preceded by Operation Margarethe in March 1944, which was the occupation of Hungary by German forces, which Hitler had hoped would secure Hungary's place in the Axis powers. [1] This had also enabled the deportation of the majority of Hungarian Jews , previously beyond the reach of the Nazis, through uneasy cooperation with ...
On 23 January 2024, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent a letter to Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, inviting him to Budapest to negotiate Sweden's accession into NATO. [10] However, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström rejected Hungary's call to negotiate, stating that, although he was open to a constructive conversation ...
Unresolved conflicts led to wars between Hungary and its neighbor states (Kingdom of Romania, [1] Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes [2] [3] and the evolving Czechoslovakia [1]) in 1919. The Hungarian Soviet Republic ceased to exist after the Romanian occupation. The 1920 Treaty of Trianon in Versailles created the Kingdom of Hungary.