Fereno Szalasi, former premier of the pro-Nazi Hungarian Government, on trial here for war crimes, today denied knowledge of atrocities committed against Jews.
He admitted responsibility, however, for decrees which drove the Jews into ghettos, and which placed them in forced labor gangs. Szalasi claimed that he wanted the Jews to live somewhere else in a land of their own. Witnesses stressed that Szalasi was instrumental in forcing sanctionary policies upon governments preceding his own, resulting in intensified persecution of Jews.
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