White Terror (Hungary)

Hungarian communist executed by counter-revolutionary forces

The White Terror in Hungary (Hungarian: Fehér Terror) was a two-year period (1919–1921) of repressive violence by counter-revolutionary soldiers, carried out to destroy any supporters of Hungary's short-lived Soviet republic and its Red Terror.[1][2] Tens of thousands were imprisoned without trial, and as many as 1,000 people were killed. Furthermore, between 1,250 and 2,500 Jews, who were targeted in particular, were killed and tens of thousands more injured between 1919 and 1921. Assuming all Jews were traitors and communists, far-right militias raped, robbed, and massacred them.[3]

  1. ^ Randolph L. Braham (2002). The Nazis' Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary. Wayne State University Press. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-8143-3095-1.
  2. ^ Spencer Tucker; Laura Matysek Wood (1996). The European powers in the First World War: an encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. pp. 349–350. ISBN 978-0-8153-0399-2.
  3. ^ Rozenblit, Marsha L. (December 2021). "The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919–1921. By Béla Bodó. Mass Violence in Modern History. London: Routledge, 2019. xxv, 333 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Figures. Maps. $124.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 80 (4): 916–917. doi:10.1017/slr.2022.32. ISSN 0037-6779.