Operation “Last chance” in Hungary: A Final Attempt to Prosecute Hungarian Nazi Collaborators
Operation “Last chance” in Hungary: A Final Attempt to Prosecute Hungarian Nazi Collaborators
Author(s): Efraim ZuroffSubject(s): Law and Transitional Justice, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), History of the Holocaust
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studierea Holocaustului din Romania ELIE WIESEL
Keywords: Hungary, Nazi perpetrators; Nazi-hunters; identification; prosecution;
Summary/Abstract: In 2004, the “Simon Wiesenthal” Center launched its flagship project to attempt to identify and hopefully facilitate the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators in Hungary, the sixth country in which the project was initiated (the others were Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in 2002, and Austria, Romania, and Poland in 2003). The project offered financial rewards for valuable information, which could assist in finding criminals alive and healthy enough to be prosecuted. Despite the fact that the extent of the Hungarian participation in the mass murdering of Jews was more limited than that of other collaborators in Eastern Europe, several Hungarian suspects were identified and indicted. The lecture describes the cases and explains the outcomes of the legal proceedings, both in Hungary and overseas.
Journal: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări
- Issue Year: XVI/2024
- Issue No: Supl. 1
- Page Range: 579-592
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
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