Ferenc Szalasi
1897 – 1946 Hungarian Leader of the Arrow Cross Party; head of state of Hungary
Arrow Cross leader whose brief regime murdered thousands of Budapest's Jews.
- Religion
- A fervent Catholic who fused mystical nationalism with a self-styled 'Hungarism,' presenting himself in near-messianic religious terms.
- Affiliations
- Founder of the Arrow Cross Party. No occult ties; his ideology was a Catholic-tinged racial nationalism.
Szalasi led Hungary's Arrow Cross, a fascist movement blending antisemitism with a mystical nationalism he called Hungarism. Installed by the Germans in late 1944, his regime murdered and deported many thousands of Jews in the final months of the war. He was tried and executed in 1946.
Connections
- ally of Adolf Hitler — Put in power by Germany after Hungary tried to quit the war.
In the timeline
- 1944 – 1945 Arrow Cross seizes power in Hungary mentioned