Hungarian prosecutors launched an inquiry into a suspected World War II-era criminal. Lajos Polgar, who now lives in Australia, has admitted to Australian media that he was a high-ranking official in the fascist Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, which was responsible for the persecution and murder of thousands of Hungarian Jews, but he denied that he took part in persecution.
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