German occupation

Work completed overnight on Hungarian WWII monument

A controversial Nazi occupation monument was erected in downtown Budapest in the middle of the night after an appeals court rejected a petition to halt its construction.

July 21, 2014 1:51 pm

Amid protest, building of controversial WWII statue begins in Budapest

Members of the Jewish community were among the demonstrators protesting the construction of a controversial monument to the Hungarian victims of the German occupation.

April 8, 2014 3:36 pm

Hungary postpones controversial monument’s unveiling

Hungarian authorities postponed a ceremony commemorating victims of World War II following protests by Jewish groups that said it obfuscated Hungary’s Holocaust-era role.

February 20, 2014 6:10 am