készíti: Gellért Ádám
email/elérhetőség: gadam107@yahoo.com

“The only necessary for "evil" to triumph is for a few good men to do nothing”


2012. december 12., szerda

Beszélgetés a Csatáry ügyről (kérdez Nick Thorpe, a BBC kelet-európai tudósítója)

A Hungarian Review őszi számában jelent meg a Nick Thorpe által készített interjú a Csatáry ügyről.

Bevezető tanulmány: Nick Thorpe: War-crimes, The Holocaust, and László Csatáry
(részlet)

The discovery of László Csatáry, the 97 year old former commander of the Kassa (now Košice in eastern Slovakia) ghetto, living quietly in a residential district in Budapest, drew international headlines in July. In the following article, I attempt to place both his case and the dilemma facing the Hungarian prosecution service in context. It is followed by an interview with Ádám Gellért, a Hungarian jurist who has studied the evidence against Csatáry.

(részlet)

NT: What in your view would need to happen for Hungary to come to terms with different periods of its 20th century history?

AG: We still have problems coming to terms with the Trianon peace treaty (in 1920). The Hungarian role in the “Final Solution” is right in the middle of all the tragedies that happened. The communist regime, 1956, the 1960s and the 1970s, and even after the regime change in 89–90 – so many injustices have happened. These questions were always buried in fast solutions, and politics interfered almost everywhere in East Central Europe. The best way to approach this would be to go back, layer by layer, and thrash out what really happened. To bring to light the basic facts, and to write all those monographs which have still not been written. Somehow the facts will then trickle down into the general population, and into the education system. If in twenty, thirty or forty years time we have this conversation again, my answers may be more positive. But at the moment the picture, as I see it, is quite dim, although progress is being made at a very slow pace.


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