Bevezető tanulmány: Nick Thorpe: War-crimes,
The Holocaust, and László Csatáry
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.
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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