Three pro-Nazi former Hungarian ministers were today sentenced to death by a Peoples Court for causing the deportation and murder of over 500,000 Hungarian Jews.
Lazlo Endre, former Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior and Lazlo Baky, one-time Under Secretary of the Interior, were ordered hanged, while Andor Jaross, ex-Minister of the Interior was sentenced to be shot.
Endre’s defense, that he was ordered to deport the Jews by the German authorities and was not responsible for the death of the half-million Jews, was refuted by a number of witnesses, who declared that the deportations would have been impossible without his aid, and that he personally had given orders to shoot on the road all Jews unable to walk to Austria.
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