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    Still today a voice for peace and truth

    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty continues to support democracy, as it did in Hungary in 1956

    • 21. October 2016 - by Alex Stemp in History

    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a long-running institution dedicated to broadcasting free and concise information to the not-so-free places throughout the world. This station and media centre may not be[…]

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    1956 aftermath is still felt

    Freedom fighters pushed first brick out of wall of communism but…

    • 21. October 2016 - by Klaudia Kovacs in History

    For us to understand the difficulties Hungary has been going through since 1989, first we need to analyse life under Soviet occupation and how it impacted a nation  that already[…]

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    Crumbling cemetery a metaphor for Holocaust

    Journey back to lost world of city’s once-flourishing Jewry

    • 22. January 2016 - by Monica Porter in History

    Every year on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us about the horrors inflicted by the Nazis on the Jewish race.  It was on that day in 1945 that[…]

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    Uprising had roots in world war

    Step by fateful step into the turmoil of 1956

    • 23. October 2015 - by BT in History

    This Friday Hungary celebrates the 59th anniversary of the 1956 Uprising against the forces of the Soviet Union. Many articles have been written about the consequences of the events, so[…]

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    Children are the light

    • 16. December 2014 - by BT in History

    As part of The Budapest Times’ coverage of Holocaust Memorial Year 2014, we are publishing a four-part series of works of historical recollection from 1944 called “Children are the Light”[…]

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    The smoothest con man who ever lived

    Austro-Hungarian ‘Count’ Victor Lustig

    • 23. September 2012 - by rkinga in History

    On a Sunday night in May 1935, Victor Lustig was strolling down Broadway on New York’s Upper West Side. At first, the Secret Service agents couldn’t be sure it was[…]

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    Time appears to be healing war wounds

    Commemoration in the Castle District on the 67th anniversary of the Siege of Budapest

    • 20. February 2012 - by Jan Mainka in History

    There were two firsts at the commemoration in Kapisztrán tér in the Buda Castle District on Monday to mark the 67th anniversary of the breakout of the last German occupiers of Budapest and their remaining Hungarian allies, and the end of the battle for Budapest. The Hungarian Defence Ministry was officially represented for the first time and the embassies of several European Union member states took part.

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    Conflicting memories of 1945 ‘liberation’

    How the Siege of Budapest has been remembered

    • 17. February 2012 - by Krisztián Ungváry in History

    Remembrance of the Siege of Budapest was dictated by the state party until 1990. I myself can still remember well those times when Young Pioneers had to recite the story of the good-natured Soviet soldiers who distributed food and rescued young women. The regime, which by then was in the process of liberalisation, permitted a public talk by the Bern-based historian Peter Gosztonyi in 1986 contesting the “liberation theory” but such events were the exception.

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    Raoul Wallenberg Year

    Recalling heroic deeds

    • 23. January 2012 - by Katalin Győry in Essay · History

    Raoul Wallenberg was born 100 years ago in August 1912 in Kappsta, Sweden. He disappeared on 17 January 67 years ago. The date and circumstances of his death remain shrouded in mystery. What is certain, however, is that the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest from deportation and death will never be forgotten in Sweden, Hungary and Israel in particular.

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    Too much emphasis on Hitler rather than Nazis

    German foreign office taken to task by historian for attempting to wipe out Nazi history

    • 28. February 2011 - by Dominik Kranzer in Essay · History · History

    Professor Dr. Hans Mommsen tackled aspects of Germany’s attempts to face its Nazi past when he delivered a lecture titled “Coming to terms with the Nazi past in the Federal Republic of Germany. Burden and Obligation” at Andrássy University last Tuesday.

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