Government of National Unity (Hungary)

Government of National Unity
Nemzeti Összefogás Kormánya (Hungarian)
1944[1]–1945[2]
Motto: Regnum Mariae Patrona Hungariae (Latin)[3]
("Kingdom of Mary, the Patron of Hungary")
Anthem: Himnusz
(English: "Hymn")
Ébredj Magyar[4]
(English: "Wake up, Hungarian!")
Seal of Hungary (1945):
Hungary 1941-44 Administrative Map.png
StatusPuppet government of Nazi Germany
Common languagesHungarian
Religion
Demonym(s)Hungarian
GovernmentHungarist totalitarian government under Nazi administration
Leader of the Nation (prime minister of Hungary) 
• 1944–1945
Ferenc Szálasi
LegislatureDiet
Historical eraWorld War II
15 October 1944
• Government formed
16 October 1944[1]
• Government fled to Germany
28–29 March 1945[5]
• End of German occupation of Hungary
4 April 1945[6]
• Capture of Szálasi
6 May 1945[2]
• Disestablished
7 May 1945[2]
CurrencyHungarian Pengő
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
Soviet occupation of Hungary
Today part ofHungary

The Government of National Unity was a Nazi-backed puppet government of Hungary, which ruled the German-occupied Kingdom of Hungary during World War II in eastern Europe.[7] After the joint coup d’état with which the Nazis and the Arrow Cross Party overthrew the government of the Regent of Hungary, Miklós Horthy (r. 1920–1944), the Arrow Cross Party established the coalition Government of National Unity (Nemzeti Összefogás Kormánya) on 16 October 1944.[1][8][9]

As the national government, the Arrow Cross Party installed Ferenc Szálasi as the prime minister of the Government of National Unity and as the Leader of the Nation, the head of state of Hungary. As a wartime ally of Nazi Germany, Prime Minister Szálasi's government readily executed and realised the Holocaust in Hungary (1941–1945); thus, in seven months, the Arrow Cross regime killed between 10,000 and 15,000 Hungarian Jews in the country,[10] and deported 80,000 Jewish women, children, and old people for killing at the Auschwitz concentration camp.[11]

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  2. ^ a b Gosztonyi, Péter (1992). A Magyar Honvédség a második világháborúban (in Hungarian) (2nd ed.). Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó. pp. 275–276. ISBN 963-07-5386-3.
  3. ^ Adeleye, Gabriel G. (1999). World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions, Thomas J. Sienkewicz and James T. McDonough, Jr., Eds., Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-86516-422-3.
  4. ^ "Ébredj Magyar - Hungarista Induló". YouTube. 2021-01-10. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
  5. ^ Gosztonyi, Péter (1992). A Magyar Honvédség a második világháborúban (2nd ed.). Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó. p. 255. ISBN 963-07-5386-3.
  6. ^ Gosztonyi, Péter (1992). A Magyar Honvédség a második világháborúban (2nd ed.). Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó. p. 256. ISBN 963-07-5386-3.
  7. ^ (in Hungarian) Nemzeti Összefogás Kormánya, Szálasi-kormány, nyilas kormány
  8. ^ Gosztonyi, Péter (1992). A Magyar Honvédség a második világháborúban (in Hungarian) (2nd ed.). Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó [hu]. p. 215. ISBN 963-07-5386-3.
  9. ^ The Policies of Prime Minister Kallay and the German Occupation of Hungary in March 1944 Archived 2011-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Patai, Raphael (1996). The Jews of Hungary:History, Culture, Psychology. 590: Wayne State University Press. p. 730. ISBN 0-8143-2561-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  11. ^ Johnston, Chris (2006-02-16). "War Crime Suspect Admits to his Leading Fascist Role". The Age. Retrieved 2009-04-19.